2024-03-01 04:45:46
Former Wagner mercenary, former convict arrested on suspicion of sex crimes [사진 = 영국 데일리메일]
There have been overseas reports that men who were former prisoners of the Russian private military company (PMC) Wagner Group have returned to their hometown following being pardoned and are committing various crimes.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, who died in August last year as the head of the Wagner Group, has been touring prisons across Russia since mid-2022, recruiting mercenaries by promising them amnesty and freedom if they return alive following fighting for six months in the war with Ukraine.
According to foreign media such as the British Daily Mail on the 29th (local time), former Wagner mercenaries with a history of sexual crimes in the past are committing violent sexual crimes following being pardoned.
On the 28th of last month, Nikolai Nechaev (38) from Perm, Russia, was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. He was convicted of the same charges in 2019 and is serving time. He was released from prison following volunteering as a mercenary for the Wagner Group. He was pardoned in November last year following safely completing six months of service.
On the 29th of last month, a court in Novosibirsk, Russia, sentenced Sergei Shakhmatov (42) to 17 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 10- and 12-year-old female student. Shakhmatov was also a former Wagner mercenary and committed a crime just one day following being pardoned.
In addition to sexual assault cases, murder cases are also continuing. Last October, former convict Wagner mercenary Denis Stepanov (32) set fire to a house in the Krasnoyarsk Krai region and killed two women. The two victims are his ex-girlfriend (35) and his mother (68). It was confirmed that when he refused to return home with him, he took revenge and set fire to the house, killing her.
In early August last year, Igor Soponov (38), also a former prisoner and former Wagner mercenary, was arrested on charges of murdering a total of six villagers and setting fire to two houses in his hometown of Karelia.
News of former Wagner mercenaries returning to society and committing violent crimes continues to spread.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, who died in August last year as the head of the Wagner Group, has been touring prisons across Russia since mid-2022, recruiting mercenaries by promising them amnesty and freedom if they return alive following fighting for six months in the war with Ukraine.
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