At trial in Krasnodar, figurants of "Tsapok's case" refuse to plead guilty in their final speeches

At the today's court session of the Krasnodar Regional Court, in their final speeches, figurants of the "Tsapok's case", accused of the massacre in the Cossack village of Kuschevskaya, have pleaded not guilty for all charges. At the next court session, held on November 7, the jury are to leave for the jury room to find a verdict.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that at trial in the case of the murder of 12 persons committed on November 4, 2010, in the house of farmer Server Ametov in the Cossack village of Kuschevskaya, the prisoners' dock contains Sergey Tsapok, Nikolai Tsapok, Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz, Igor Chernykh, Vladimir Alekseev, and Vladimir Zaporozhets.

At the today's court session, Sergey Tsapok has stated that he treats the trial against him a "raiding seizure" of his property.

According to Vladimir Alekseev, the criminal process is of "ordered" nature. In his turn, Igor Chernykh has stated that he was forced to incriminate himself during the investigation.

Vladimir Zaporozhets, who is charged with killing Alexander Ivanov, a resident of the Cossack village of Krylovskaya on September 16, 1998, has said that the investigators were to eliminate "a lot of doubts", but they failed.

On November 29, 2011, the suspected members of the Tsapok's grouping faced charges. Earlier, two of them, Sergey Karpenko and Vitaly Ivanov, had committed suicide. Andrei Bykov and Vyacheslav Ryabtsev were sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment.