Igor Redkin for murder restricted for 1 year
The Ust-Bolsheretsky District Court identified a billionaire from the Forbes list, a former member of the lawmaking body of the Kamchatka Territory Igor Redkin guilty of murder a resident of the village of Ozernovsky who engaged in illegal hunting for a bear in a waste site, according to the KAMCHATKA-INFORM agency. The Investigative Committee of the ICR for the Kamchatka Territory reported that Redkin was sentenced to a restriction of freedom under Part 1 of Art. 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (causing death by negligence) and Part 1 of Art. 258 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal hunting). However, due to time spent under house arrest, the convict has 9 months remaining to serve the sentence. for a yearBut the court's decision is not final.
On August 2 last year, a 30-year-old local resident named Andrei Tolstopyatov was fatally shot at a waste site in the village of Ozernovsky. The bullet struck him in the stomach while he and a relative were loading scrap metal onto a microtruck. Official reports initially stated that the citizen was killed under unclear circumstances. On August 10, “KAMCHATKA-INFORM”
published a story about the potential connection of United Russia deputy Redkin. Within minutes, the editors received murder a statement from the 55-year-old former member of the lawmaking body. Redkin confessed that he had scared away bears at a waste site with a rifle, but later found out that he had hit a man. On the same day appeal “ER” expelled him from the party According to KAMCHATKA-INFORM sources, on the evening of August 2, the villagers witnessed a drunken Mr. Redkin driving around the village in an expensive Trekol all-terrain vehicle with a rifle worth 2 million and a sight worth nearly a million. However, the fisherman's security team insists that he was sober..
It was later revealed that on August 9, the businessman was taken to a temporary detention facility. On August 11, Redkin was placed under house arrest. He was accused under Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation –
, which involves intentionally causing death to another person. This article posed a potential prison sentence of up to 15 years for one of the wealthiest individuals in Kamchatka and Russia. However, the article was later reclassified as unintentional murder, and then as causing death by negligence. Redkin also faced charges of illegal hunting. murderIn addition to the previous charge of
“Continuing illegal hunting for wild animals, I moved to a hill located in the landfill area of the village of Ozernovsky, Ust-Bolsheretsky district, where through the hatch of the vehicle, using a carbine with a thermal imaging sight, I found a likely target for destruction, displayed as a bright dot on a dark background, without excluding the possibility of shooting at a person, he fired at least three aimed shots with metal bullets in the direction of the landfill at an unclearly detected target in a direction dangerous for shooting, ”added the investigative department, specifying that one of the bullets hit a 30-year-old local resident , which, 274 meters from Redkin, collected scrap metal.
“The defendant in the criminal case admitted the guilt of illegal hunting in full, however, he believes that the man’s death occurred as a result of his careless actions. The accused continues to be kept under house arrest by a court decision”, — specified in the department.
Mr. Redkin carried out house arrest in his mansion in one of the cottage settlements in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. However, in February of this year, the billionaire released.
Contrary to rumors that Redkin’s empire is bursting at the seams after his arrest, today he is still a co-owner of the Vityaz-AVTO fishing company (for two with his wife he owns 50%), the Vityaz-Aero airline (49%), “Delta”, “New House”, “Olga”, a number of other enterprises, his company is building a hotel on the shores of Lake Kultuchnoye in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Since 2007, he has been a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Kamchatka. In 2020, Redkin was in 20th place in the Forbes ranking with an income of 715.7 million rublesin 2019 – in 9th place with annual income in 1.44 billion rubles.
