The former mercenary of PMC Wagner is suspected of a double murder

Police officers detained a former PMK Wagner mercenary, suspected of a double murder in the village of Ermakovskoe, Krasnoyarsk Territory. This is reported by Sibir.Realii with a link to the source in the search group.

On the night of October 3, 32-year-old resident of Ermakovsky Denys Stepanov set fire to a house in which two local residents were located – both died. A few hours after the arson, Stepanov was detained by criminal investigation officers.

According to open data, in 2021, the court in Ermakovskoye sentenced Stepanov to 3.5 years in prison for beating an acquaintance with a metal oven door.

The police turned to volunteers to search for the suspect. The motives of the crime have not yet been named, but it is known that before the incident, Stepanov threatened the victims with reprisals. In addition, he repeatedly entered into conflicts with his fellow villagers.

Baza reports that a 68-year-old housewife and her 35-year-old daughter died as a result of the fire.

• Criminal cases on serious and particularly serious charges are regularly initiated against the soldiers and mercenaries of PMC Wagner who have returned from Ukraine. So, at the end of May, a suspect in the rape of two 10- and 12-year-old schoolgirls was sent under arrest in the Novosibirsk Region. The girls reported that he was in a military uniform with a skull on a chevron. Baza asserts that this is a former mercenary of the PMC named Sergey Sh.
• In St. Petersburg, at the beginning of June, a Wagnerian returning from the war robbed a flower shop, threatening an employee to blow up the building. Shortly before that, a mercenary beat up the administrator of a cafe nearby. Before the recruitment, he was serving time in a colony for murder, robbery, beating and fraud.
• Another former mercenary of PMC “Wagner”, 31-year-old Demyan Kevorkyan, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2016 for robbery and organization of a criminal group, is suspected of murdering 19-year-old Tatyana Mostyko and 37-year-old Kirill Chubko. They were killed in the spring of 2023.

• PMC “Wagner” is a Russian unofficial armed formation created by Yevgeny Prigozhin. PMC mercenaries took an active part in the war with Ukraine, as well as in ground operations in Syria and Africa. The company’s fighters are accused of multiple war crimes. Prigozhin died two months later after the demand for armed rebellion organized by PMC “Wagner”.