Krasnodar: jury finds "Tsapok case" figurants guilty of all imputed crimes

The jury of the Krasnodar Territorial Court has recognized all the defendants in the "Tsapok case", accused of the massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya, guilty of all the imputed crimes and deserving no leniency.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on November 5 and 6, at the trial on the murder of 12 persons, committed on November 4, 2010, in the house of Server Ametov, a farmer from Kuschevskaya, the defendants Sergey Tsapok, Nikolai Tsapok, Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz, Igor Chernykh, Vladimir Alekseev and Vladimir Zaporozhets made their last word and refused to plead guilty on any of the indictment points. Apart from the massacre in Kuschevskaya, they were accused of a number of murders and rapes.

Today, the jurymen concluded announcing their verdict, finding Sergey Tsapok, his uncle Nikolai Tsapok, Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz, Igor Chernykh, Vladimir Alekseev and Vladimir Zaporozhets guilty of participating in a gang, murders, attempted murders, robberies, illegal deprivation of freedom, intentional destruction of or damage to others' property, rapes and illegal possession of weapons.

Sergey Tsapok was found guilty of killing 18 people; Alekseev, Zaporozhets, Chernykh and Nikolai Tsapok – of commission from 3 to 20 grave and extremely grave crimes, the "Interfax" reports.

Now, the parties will discuss the verdict of the jury; then the court will retire to compile the sentence, the RAPSI reports.