Three people suspected of killing 37-year-old animator Kirill Chubko and 19-year-old Tatyana Mostyko were detained in the Krasnodar, Tikhoretsky and Apsheronsky districts. In the statement of the Investigative Committee, besides the names of the suspects, their names were not mentioned, but according to the circumstances of the case, it can be concluded that this was exactly this tragedy.
“We cut a boy and a girl, I can show you where,” one of the detainees said in a video released by the investigation department. Judging by the footage, the bodies were buried in the forest.
It was reported that “a man’s body with severe death marks was found”, “the place where the girl’s body was hidden has been determined”.
Kirill Chubko and Tatyana Mostyko
SU SK in the Krasnodar Territory
The detainees are suspected of committing murder with mercenary motives (paragraphs “a, h”, part 2, Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
“According to the investigation, on the evening of April 28, 2023, the suspects and victims, aged 30, 31 and 45, found themselves on the same section of the road near the village of Berezanskaya, Vyselkovsky district.” says In the message of the Telegram channel of SU TFR in the Krasnodar Territory.
Investigators believe the alleged perpetrators saw a man and a girl “standing alone in a foreign-made car on the highway at night”. After that, they allegedly “decided to kill them to get their money and other valuables.”
“Fulfilling their plan, they attacked the victims and seized cash and debit cards, gaining access to the ability to bank on them,” the post says.
Law enforcement agencies concluded that the defendants had withdrawn more than 180 thousand rubles from the victims’ accounts at various ATMs. “The attackers who stole money killed a boy and a girl. “The suspects hid the victims’ bodies and burned the man’s car to remove any traces of crime,” he said.
According to the local edition 93.ru, one of the defendants is probably a criminal Demyan Kevorkyan. In 2016, 24-year-old Kevorkian was sentenced to 18 years in a maximum security penal colony for similar highway robberies. A man born in 1991 was now supposed to serve a term but was released. A number of media outlets suggest that he participated in a special operation as part of Wagner PMC and was subsequently released.
Allegedly, this man was detained on the Turgenev bridge on May 1. At first he refused to testify, but later began to cooperate in the investigation and admitted that he was involved in the disappearance of the animators, the portal 93.ru writes, citing a law enforcement source.
The Rossiya.Kuban edition reported that the body of 19-year-old Tatyana Mostyko was found earlier, but there was no official confirmation of this information.
What happened?
On the evening of April 28, Kirill Chubko and Tatyana Mostyko were returning after work to the Ust-Labinsky district – young people were animators at a birthday party.
It is assumed that on the highway in the Vyselkovsky district near the village of Krylovskaya, they punctured the tire of Hyundai cars and stopped communicating. Cyril told his wife Daria about this. She asked him not to cook dinner because he “doesn’t know when he’ll be home because he had a flat tire on the track.”
“Around 22:00 Kirill told his wife that he had come to buy a wheel to change for his classmate in the village of Berezanskaya. It was brought there by guys who also damaged the car, but had already repaired it and decided to help,” writes 93.ru, referring to the words of the animator’s wife.
About two hours later, the man called Daria again. This time, he and a colleague sat in the car, waiting for the rain to stop before changing the steering wheel. He also told his wife that the car had fallen into a ditch, two disks had bent and a tire had burst. An hour later, the woman wrote a message to her husband, he did not reply, and her husband went to bed.
Daria woke up around 6 in the morning, writes on the 93.ru portal, her husband was not at home, and the reply to the message is also. Cyril did not answer the phone. Then the woman began to call Tatyana. Daria thought there was no connection on the highway and drove right.
Around 8:30 am, Kirill’s colleague called him and said that he was not around and did not know where he was. The call ended and 15 minutes later the girls called again. Tatyana told Kirill’s wife that she would explain everything to him later.
As for the withdrawal process, the man allegedly didn’t take a card with him, so he made transfers. According to his wife, the first of these occurred around midnight, the last at 05:45, writes 93.ru. The last withdrawal was recorded at 08:52. At this time, Daria spoke with Tatyana on the phone.
“We saw videos from ATMs, it did not withdraw money. The man in black is not him. And he wasn’t driving. The fourth day passes, we cannot find a single clue,” Kirill Chubko’s wife told Telegram channel 112.
Two days later, the car of the animators was found burned in the forest in the Bryukhovetsky district – according to his wife, law enforcement officials were already looking for the missing in this area.
Source: Gazeta
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