Convicted of brutal murder was released an hour later thanks to “SVO”

Vyacheslav Samoilov, a resident of the Arkhangelsk region convicted last year of the brutal murder of a woman, was released due to his participation in the so-called “special military operation” on the territory of Ukraine, Arkhangelsk edition 29.ru reports, citing Samoilov’s mother and his neighbors.

In March 2021, 33-year-old Olga Shlyamina, a finalist in the All-Russian beauty contest, disappeared in the city of Novodvinsk. Later, her dismembered corpse was found in a forest strip.

According to the results of the investigation, the woman’s cohabitant was detained on suspicion of murder. He admitted his guilt, said that, being in a state of alcoholic intoxication, he hit Shlyamina on the head several times, and after realizing that she had died, he decided to dismember and hide the body.

In April 2022, the court sentenced Vyacheslav Samoilov to 9 years and 7 months in prison. His victim was left with a young son. Relatives and neighbors of Shlyamina told journalists at the time that the convict was always aggressive and regularly beat his wife.

Already in the colony, Samoilov was recruited for the war in Ukraine, was wounded there, spent some time in the hospital, and then returned to Novodvinsk – as a result of the pardon procedure.

In a comment to 29.ru journalists, Samoilova’s mother said that her son is “clean before God.”

• In the summer of last year, after several military defeats by the Russian army on the territory of Ukraine, the private military company “Wagner” and its founder, a businessman close to Vladimir Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, began to recruit prisoners into their ranks and send them to war. Convicts who agreed to take part in hostilities had to spend six months on the front line, they were forbidden to retreat and surrender under the threat of execution. Those who remained alive were promised freedom. Thus, according to various estimates, 50 to 70 thousand fighters were recruited into the PMC. According to Prigozhin, 32,000 of them have already returned and received pardons for their participation in hostilities.
• Recently, mass media have regularly reported on serious crimes, including murders and rapes, committed by fighters of the PMC “Wagner” who returned from Ukraine. So, at the end of May, a man from Wagner, suspected of raping two schoolgirls aged 10 and 12, was sent under arrest in the Novosibirsk region. And at the beginning of August in Karelia Igor Sofonov, who had returned from the war and had previously been convicted, was arrested on charges of murdering six people.