Blogger boars killed his wife biography. Father of Alexei Kabanov: “The son should have been given no more than five years. It was a spontaneous, but not premeditated murder. And they believed him

The investigator who solved the most notorious murder of the year is forced to resign from the authorities

Excuse me, how is Alexey Kabanov doing? Former well-known restaurateur, former blogger, former oppositionist, former philanthropist, but in fact - a brutal killer, ripper and deceiver. In January of this year, he dismembered his wife Irina, after which he launched a storm of activity to find his wife, connecting social media, volunteers, the media ... As a result, he was nevertheless exposed - thanks to the professionalism of the detectives and investigators. More precisely, one investigator, an employee of the Golovinsky Investigative Committee of the ICR in Moscow, Yevgeny Buchintsev. Kabanov ended up in prison, Buchintsev was among those awarded. The award was presented to him personally by the head of the TFR, Alexander Bastrykin. Many, including the chief of the Investigative Committee, were then surprised: wow, just a boy (24 years old), but he opened such a case.

Alas, the history of law enforcement knows many such examples: today you are a hero, and tomorrow you are an outcast. Buchintsev unwittingly became another victim of Alexei Kabanov. Yevgeny was slandered and actually forced to leave the organs.

The now former investigator Yevgeny BUCHINTSEV told the MK special correspondent about the unknown details of the Kabanov case and the reasons for his dismissal.

“Kabanov himself forced himself to believe that he is an unhappy husband”

Eugene, why did the high-profile case of the disappearance of a well-known person in the blogosphere come to you? Still, you are one of the youngest, you are only 24 ...

I specialized specifically in the disappearances of people, including children. Found a lot of "loses" (we call them that) in different cities. So when they brought the material on the fact of the disappearance of Irina Kabanova, the head immediately assigned it to me. It was right after the holidays, January 9th. In the evening I already talked with Alexei Kabanov in my office. He was depressed, worried, twitching all over, but this did not arouse suspicion in me. This is normal - a man's wife disappeared, three children remained in his arms. He was ready to cooperate, connected to the search for colleagues, friends, the entire blogosphere. I then printed out a request for him, said - take it to the telecommunications services so that we can look at all her calls lately.

- Did you believe then that you would find the missing woman?

Yes, I told him so myself. He asked: how often do you find? I replied that in 99% we find, alive or dead. And he is on it - and what, you also find dead? I replied that there were such sad precedents in my practice.

- How did you search for Irina?

Contacted everyone with whom she spoke. I even called her friend in Bali (he was vacationing there), from whom Irina had to borrow money the day before. The family had big problems with money ... He said that they really agreed on a meeting, but she did not come.

Kabanov himself did not fall under suspicion in any way. Yes, there were quarrels in their family, but nothing foreshadowed such a sad end. And in principle, both about him and about her, people spoke positively. On January 11, Aleksey Kabanov voluntarily agreed to undergo a polygraph. The study was conducted at the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow. The operatives immediately called me back, they said that the polygraph examiner could not give an unambiguous answer, because Kabanov had a “zero” reaction. But in general it is believed that since “zero” means it’s not him.

	Kabanov remembered all the details during the investigative experiment.

- And did you have such that the polygraph did not reveal the killer?

Neither I nor my colleagues have ever experienced this before. In principle, it is not easy to deceive a polygraph. You need to have certain skills for this. You can eat some pills, but now a technique has been developed that shows this too.

Later, after the arrest, I asked Kabanov: “How did you pass the polygraph? Share the secret." And he says: “I don’t know how it happened.” I then thought about this for a long time ... And you know what? In light of the fact that Kabanov portrayed an unhappy husband for too long, accused the authorities of inaction, raised everyone in search of a wife, perhaps he himself believed it. Or forced himself to believe for a while.

	Alexey Kabanov behind bars only worries about children.

“I immediately realized that something was wrong with this car”

So that same evening, at 9 o'clock, I phoned the operatives (we interacted very well with them during the search for Irina). I wanted to wish you a good weekend. I talked to them and asked: “And now what are the plans? Maybe we’ll rush to visit Kabanov? Well, let's go. I, two operas and experts with ultraviolet lamps (so that you can see the traces of blood).

- Why all of a sudden?

Honestly? Do not know! Sixth sense, if you will.

How did he receive you?

Calmly. We warned him about the visit for 10 minutes. But he did not try to hide or resist. Vice versa. "Come in, see what you want." At home, besides him, there was a nanny and children. She then put them to bed, so that they did not observe the whole procedure. We thoroughly examined the entire apartment, including the bath, the balcony. We found some slight traces of blood (ultraviolet showed), but in a house where there are small children, it could be anything: someone broke his nose, cut his finger, scratched it. We collected some rags, siphons for genetic examination, took knives.

And then we found the keys to the Skoda car on the top shelf of the kitchen. I asked the operative to carefully go out and see if there was any Skoda in the yard? He is back. He said, they say, yes, there are a couple of cars of this brand. But Kabanov's car, by the way, he did not notice, which is surprising - he was standing right next to my car. And by the way, even before that, information was received that Kabanov had a vehicle in use.

- But he himself assured that he didn’t even know how to drive?

Yes, he said that he didn’t even have “rights”. And when we showed him the keys, he said that it was from the car of his friend - a family friend. But at the same time he refused to show the car itself. He said that he did not even know exactly where she was standing. Twisted-yulil. In general, I immediately realized that something was wrong with this machine. And in the end, I tell him - well, we're done, it remains only to see the car, and that's it. The time was already 12 noon. Nothing to do, he went to show. And the first thing that caught my eye was that the trunk was directly propped up against a snowdrift so that it was impossible to open it. I asked - drive away, please, the car. He absolutely calmly got behind the wheel, drove away. I thought later, after all, if he had just given gas, everything would have gone according to a completely different scenario. With the pursuit, with the search. Apparently, he hoped to the last that he would manage.

	Irina, who died at the hands of her husband, sawed him for the lack of money in the family.

- What was in the trunk?

Huge bags. I ask - what is there? He is there the personal belongings of the owner of the car. We open one bag. Look, there really are things. But I pulled it on myself, and it is so heavy! He says to this that things are simply rammed. Then I asked him to pull out the bag completely so that I could examine all its contents. And for the first time he trembled. Said, "Don't touch." Me - why is that? He: "These are other people's personal things, you should not touch them." Well, I didn’t react to it in any way, I gave the command to pull it out. And before we had time to put it on the ground, he said: "This is it."

- Your reaction?

To be honest, we were all taken aback. I asked - what? He responded nervously: "What's incomprehensible, I'm telling you, it's SHE." And five seconds later he was lying on the ground twisted. It's funny, but no one was ready - no one had a weapon or handcuffs with him. But then it turned out that Kabanov was being monitored by officers of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (even I did not know about this), and then they ran up and helped.

- Didn't you dare to disassemble the bag completely?

No, they didn't. It was all obvious. We just looked a little further, made sure that there were plastic bags stuffed ... Kabanov, meanwhile, was calm as a boa constrictor, I apologize for the expression. It just shocked me.

- And how can this be explained, in your opinion?

I think he burned out, or something .... It happens that a person is afraid, afraid, and then once - and there are no feelings. No more emotions, nothing.

- But maybe he was mentally ill?

Nothing like this. He acted completely naturally. And then he spoke calmly about what had happened.

- And what did he say?

The family has been in trouble for a long time. They no longer simply did not love - all good feelings were erased. Quietly hated and everyone for it, and each other. There were many mutual claims. Alexei did not like that Irina did little with children and spent all her time on the Internet. She really, judging by the words of her friends, thought more about her blog.

Irina did not like that her husband was a failure in business, that there was no work, that there was not enough money all the time and she had to get out on her own. I think they would have divorced a long time ago if not for the children. And so they were forced to endure each other ... And both spouses, let's say, loved to drink. That day they drank alcohol together. We quarreled on a domestic basis.

- It turns out, a typical bytovuha?

Formally yes. Irina impartially expressed herself in his address (the argument turned to financial problems), he grabbed her and began to choke her. And then they moved to the floor, and he stabbed her 12 times. According to him, he did not understand what he was doing.

Was he that drunk?

I don't think it's just the alcohol. He said: "I've been wedged." Although at the crime scene he then showed the entire sequence of his actions. How he choked, how he struck blows, how he moved him to the bath. That is, in his mind all the details were recorded. And then he showed where her passport was hidden with the phone. He acted prudently, coolly, foreseeing all the nuances. How would a criminal preparing to kill in advance act.

- Did he really not have a drop of pity for the woman with whom he had lived for so many years?

I didn't see it. And there was not much remorse. That is, yes, of course, he regrets, but, rather, because he understands that he is facing a prison term, that he has lost everything.

“But why did he come up with the monstrous idea of ​​dismembering his wife?”

Everything is simple. It was the safest way to dispose of the body. He didn't want to go to jail. He says that he did not want to leave the children alone in the care of fate.

- That is, he relied on children ...

Yes, this is the main thing in his testimony. And by the way, if we hadn’t gone to see him that Friday, he probably would have managed to get rid of the body - he had already thrown out some of the body fragments by that time. He struck me when he talked about the dismemberment. Of course, I had to ask all the details - how, with what tools ... He talked about the process, as if about something natural: “I cut it with a knife. Ligaments, tendons... The human body is like a carcass of a ram. Nothing different. All the same". In my practice, there were several dismemberments (simply less resonant). And the killers themselves said that the most difficult thing is to cut off the head. That's why they either cut it off or don't touch it. And Kabanov calmly said that he tried with an ax, it didn’t work out, that it was easier to cut it off with a knife ... That is, he generally managed with one knife in just a few hours. Well, you know he was a butcher.

	Evgeny Buchintsev receives an award for solving a brutal murder from the head of the TFR Bastrykin. He will have to retire soon.

"No need for comfort, no one touches me"

- They say that after this, the killer undergoes irreversible changes in the psyche ...

I think everyone has their own story. The previous similar murder that I investigated was committed by a drug addict who already had mental disorder. By the way, he also killed his partner. The process of dismemberment clearly did not add to his mental health. But Kabanov is a completely different story. He was most worried about how much they would give him. He was worried that I would charge him with a heavier composition. And I appointed a forensic medical examination at the Serbsky Research Institute. He just passed it. In an oral conversation, they said that he was completely sane. But since I haven't seen the paper, I can't confirm.

- What requests were from him in the pre-trial detention center?

It mainly concerned children. He was worried - where are they, what will happen to them? He kept asking me about it.

- And what about the children?

Initially, when he was detained, juvenile affairs officers were called. The children were hospitalized. Because one had a serious bronchitis in an advanced stage, others had something else. Then the father of the older child came and took him away. The rest were taken by Irina's mother and taken to Ukraine. There was a question about the deprivation of Alexei parental rights. I wrote a corresponding letter to the court.

- Complained about something? Nevertheless, in the pre-trial detention center, those who mocked women are treated “in a special way” ...

As practice shows, all the horrors that are told about the pre-trial detention center are not true. In the isolation ward, there is no lawlessness that you, journalists, write about. If something is wrong, then the lawyer always comes up, says: can I be transferred to another cell? And you translate. Because if the prisoner feels uncomfortable in the cell, then the investigator does not need it either. So you can always find a compromise.

Kabanov sits in a cell, where there is only one person besides him. He said that he did not communicate with the cellmate at all. Reading books all day long. Philosophical mostly.

- There was a media report that he complained about the content...

There was some kind of provocation. He didn't complain about anything. I even offered to transfer him to a cell, where there are more people, where there is a radio or TV. He flatly refused. He said: “I don’t need comfort, I feel good here, no one touches me.”

He asked only to be allowed to meet with his parents. And the only time he shed a tear was when they were notified of his detention ...

He also asked Kabanov to distribute the property correctly. To whom to give. Laptops for kids.

Did he try to take his own life?

No. Although initially we assumed that he could do it, and there was close attention to him in the isolation ward. But then it became obvious that he loved himself too much. I thoroughly studied his entire biography. His lifestyle suggested that he was a narcissistic type. Parties are constant, bohemian companies. He never really bothered himself. In the pre-trial detention center, he lost weight, but this is from stress. He is not seriously ill.

“I was so pulled that I couldn’t work normally”

- Eugene, after solving a high-profile murder, did you expect your career to go uphill?

I didn't even think of anything like that. The awarding of the medal (and the award was good then) was announced to me the day before the event. I remember a curiosity came out with this. They said that we had to be at the event in a suit (we had not yet been given a new dress uniform by that time). I ran to the store, bought it for "premium". And in the morning they call - run to the warehouse, new form brought, pick. And the award ceremony is at 12 noon! The form, as usual, does not fit. Meryl-meryl ... then he grabbed the first one that came across and rushed to the nearest atelier. There shoulder straps were sewn on, stroked. Managed! I remember Bastrykin, when he shook hands, said that people like me are the future generation of investigators. I was very pleased.

- And how did you decide to quit after that?

I was forced to. I didn't expect it to turn out like this. After all, working as an investigator is a childhood dream.

- Why did this happen?

The reason was the story with the apartment. My family has been in a housing dispute since 2007. Once my grandmother looked after the paralyzed aunt. She herself begged her about it, because she had no one. Grandmother spent several years with her. Pampers, spoon-feeding… My aunt bequeathed her an apartment. But then the right to housing was presented by the husband of this relative, who left her long ago, lived with another family, but officially they were not divorced. And it so happened that the Kabanov case broke my career.

- I.e?

Imagine: there is a trial. And the litigator, seeing me on TV (TV channels showed the moment of my award), decided to write to the Investigative Committee. He said: they say, you are rewarding scammers, this Buchintsev and his whole family deceived the unfortunate pensioner.

	Former investigator, now unemployed Yevgeny Buchinsky.

- And they believed him?

The complaint got to the internal security service. The service check against me lasted almost a month. All this time I was so pulled that I could not work normally. I explained that this is a civil law dispute and has nothing to do with my official activity he does not have. But unsuccessfully.

"Didn't anyone try to put in a word?"

Senior colleagues stood up for me. It was said that there were only three "workers" (that is, those who normally investigate cases) employees in the Golovinsky department. And the department, because of the vast territory, is the hardest - by the way, on our own "land" a fan of Sviridov was killed, because of which riots began on Manezhnaya Square.

- And intercession did not help you?

No. I was unpleasantly surprised that for some reason the security service believed more in the spouse of that deceased relative of ours, and not in me ... Trouble, as they say, does not come alone. I was also given a severe reprimand for the Kabanovs' case.

- Like this? For what exactly!

For my short comment about the lawyer Alexei Kabanov. He assured that his client was being beaten, that the investigation was putting pressure on him. But there was none of that! So I spoke to one online publication that, they say, the lawyer is lying. The management did not like the fact that I did not agree on my comment. But there was nothing criminal about it. As a result, my salary was reduced by half, and all bonuses were taken away.

And then several of my colleagues who were sitting in the same office were detained on suspicion of bribes (this was even before the Kabanov case. In early May last year, the investigator of the Golovinsky SO of the Investigative Committee Evgeny Klinnikov was detained for receiving 300 thousand rubles in exchange for not initiating a criminal Affairs). The whole department began to be called corrupt because of this.

Did your boss directly order you to quit?

Not certainly in that way. Through colleagues, I was given a “higher” instruction: either I leave the disputed apartment, or I quit. I had to choose the second one - why on earth should I give up housing if the court may decide the dispute in favor of my family?

- And where do you work now?

So far, nowhere. But I myself clearly understand that the investigator is not a profession, but a way of life. Pulls ... It is no coincidence that many return.

Woman killer and dismemberer sentenced to 14 years in prison

The Golovinsky Court of Moscow today ruled that a year ago he killed and dismembered his wife, a 39-year-old journalist and mother of many children, Irina Kabanova. The next fourteen years the executioner - the restaurateur will have to spend in a strict regime colony. As compensation for non-pecuniary damage, he will have to pay 1.5 million rubles at the claim of the injured party, the mother of the murdered journalist.

Photo from the Kabanovs' LiveJournal and Facebook accounts

Judge Dmitry Artaut read out the verdict for more than an hour. All this time Alexei Kabanov stood staring at the ceiling.

Of all his relatives and friends, only his father, Vyacheslav Trofimovich, came to the final court session. The gray-haired man tried not to glance in the direction of the metal cage where his son stood. Leaning on a crutch, he stared into space.

Defendant Kabanov did not seem to notice the numerous photo and video cameras that “shot” him point-blank. Dressed in a dark jumper, hastily tucked-up jeans, slip-on sneakers, he didn't look away, he didn't look upset or annoyed.

And the judge, meanwhile, set out in detail how the accused dealt with his wife. The death of Irina Kabanova came from 12 stab wounds. To dismember the body once native person for 8 parts, the executioner used knives, a hammer, a hacksaw and a saw.

In imposing the punishment, the judge took into account the quality mitigating circumstance the defendant has minor children. According to the judge, Kabanov "was aware of the nature and degree of public danger of his actions." At the same time, Dmitry Artaut referred to the data of a psychiatric examination, which established that the defendant did not suffer from mental illness, although he was diagnosed with a hysterical personality disorder characterized by egocentrism, overestimation of his abilities, developed pride and instability of emotional reactions.

In the verdict, the judge reflected that Kabanov did not need compulsory treatment measures.

When Dmitry Artaut pronounced the verdict, not a single muscle trembled on Kabanov's face. To the question: "Do you understand the verdict," the defendant briefly answered: "I understand."

Meanwhile, Kabanov's father said that 14 years is too harsh a sentence for his son.

Alexei had no intention of killing Irina. It was a spontaneous, but not premeditated murder. They sat at the table and drank heavily. Irina hit him, he hit her. Then Alexei lost his head ... Of course, he deserved 5 years, I do not argue. But not 14! Because of the significant public outcry, we did not expect a different verdict.

There was a feeling that the defendant did not repent at all. In particular, he did not ask for forgiveness from Irina's mother.

Knowing my son, I will say that he is far from public remorse. What is happening now in court under the guns of 40 cameras is a farce. Believe me, this is an irreparable misfortune for him, having killed his wife, he destroyed himself, ruined his life, left children orphans.

Does he have a child from his first marriage?

Yes, the girl is a teenager.

-Where is Alexei Kabanov's mother now?

At home, she is very ill, she has not been walking for almost a year. Alexey, having committed a crime, also knocked down his mother.

- He will have to pay 1.5 million rubles to the injured party. Does the defendant have any property?

Nothing, just like us. My wife and I are retired.

After the verdict was announced, Kabanov's lawyer said he intended to appeal today's court decision. “We had evidence that Kabanov committed a crime in a state of passion, but we were not allowed to fully prove it. We will appeal the verdict,” said Mikhail Menglibaev.

In turn, the representative of the mother of the murdered, lawyer Fyodor Kupriyanov, expressed satisfaction with the verdict. According to him, the court imposed a fair punishment and took into account the evidence in the case in their entirety. Now the relatives of Irina Kabanova intend to deprive the offender of parental rights.

Earlier, the court refused Kabanov to consider his case with the participation of a jury, since the article imputed to him did not fall into the list of those suggesting such a form of legal proceedings.

During the debate, the prosecutor asked to appoint Kabanov 14 years in a strict regime colony. The state prosecutor drew the attention of the court to the testimony of the defendant, according to which he did not experience shock after the crime and considered the dismemberment of his wife’s body the right thing to do. The prosecutor believed that numerous stab wounds and strangulation with a cord testified to the purposeful actions of the accused. He also rejected the version that Kabanov was in a state of passion, since there is no confirmation of the immoral or illegal behavior of Irina Kabanova, which could lead to a violation of the state of mind of her husband.

The examination recognized Aleksey Kabanov as mentally healthy, without confirming the arguments of the lawyer Mikhail Menglibaev, who insisted that his client was in a state of passion at the time of the murder.

The defender claims that the examination was carried out with numerous violations and contains a lot of contradictions.

Kabanov's former lawyer Alexander Trofimov, whom the accused refused, admitted that his ex-client gives the impression of a mentally unhealthy person.

While in the pre-trial detention center, Kabanov turned to religion, at the same time he began to study the Bible, the Koran and the Torah, trying to decide on religion.

Kabanov participated in the launch of a cafe with a party that was fashionable in pre-hipster times, was one of the co-founders of the O.G.I. cafe chain in the capital, but most of them soon ceased to exist. Alexey Kabanov himself often acted as a chef. For the sake of the business of her newly-made husband, Irina sold her only home, a one-room apartment in Reutov, which was bought for her by the father of her first child, Maxim Gortsaklyan. The Cherska cafe, opened by the Kabanovs, was closed, the business went bankrupt. One after the other, they had two children. I had to live in a rented apartment. There was not enough money, Alexei and Irina constantly quarreled, loudly and with assault, which was confirmed by both the nanny of the children and Irina's friends, who noticed bruises on her body.

“Professional scammer. The only thing he knew how to do well was to lie, ”acquaintances spoke of Kabanov in this way. Behind him stretched numerous debts.

The deceased Irina Kabanova left three young children. The eldest, 6-year-old Ilya, was taken to Israel by his own father. The younger ones, 3-year-old Dasha and 2-year-old Taras, left for Ukraine to live with their grandmother, Irina's mother, Elena Dukova. Her sister helps the elderly woman take care of the children. It took a lot of effort for the deceased Irina to escape from the provincial village of Snezhnoye, which is located in the Black Sea region of Crimea. Now her children have returned to the village with a destroyed infrastructure, where there are only 32 courtyards on the only street of the World, about 20 residential ones remain.

The representative of the injured party, lawyer Fyodor Kupriyanov, said that Elena Dukova asked for one thing: to achieve the maximum punishment for the killer.

Help MK: According to the investigation, on the night of January 3, 2013, Kabanov had a quarrel with his wife, who found out that he had another woman. He attacked his wife in an apartment in the 1st Novopodmoskovny Lane, grabbed the wire from the speakers and strangled his wife with it, and also stabbed her several times.

Irina Kabanova died from her injuries. After killing Kabanov, he dismembered his wife's body in the bathroom. When the bags with her remains were still lying on the balcony, Kabanov filed a statement about the disappearance of his wife. For more than a week, the police and volunteers searched for the woman throughout the city. Alexei Kabanov pretended to knock himself off his feet in search of his wife. All the while, he has been reaching out to the entire blogosphere for help.

The tragedy came to an end on the night of January 11-12, 2013. The dismembered body of Irina was found in a Skoda car, which the executioner Kabanov borrowed from his friend. During interrogation, he confessed to the murder. Aleksey Kabanov was charged under part 1 of article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder), which implies from eight to 15 years in prison. During the investigative experiment, Kabanov showed how he killed his wife. He dragged his wife's body into the bathroom, where he dismembered it. Kabanov already had some experience - while working in a restaurant, he butchered meat carcasses.

Having admitted that he had killed his wife, Kabanov insisted on a state of passion.

The sanction of the article "Murder in the heat of passion" provided for a maximum of five years in prison. Part 1 of the article "Deliberate murder" imputed to Kabanov assumed up to 15 years in prison.

Aleksey Kabanov found guilty of premeditated murder and will serve time in a strict regime colony

The Golovinsky Court of Moscow today sentenced to 14 years in prison the chef of the ANB cafe, one of the founders of the OGI network Alexey Kabanov. He was convicted of the premeditated murder of his wife, Irina. This crime shocked the inhabitants of the capital. The “heartbroken” husband announced the loss of his wife, whom he himself cut into pieces, leaving three children without a mother.

The announcement of the verdict caused an unprecedented stir. The hall was attended by representatives of at least fifteen different television companies, not to mention the "writing" press.

“Kabanov committed premeditated murder, that is, infliction of death,” Judge Dmitry Arnaut began to read out the verdict. It took him less than an hour to announce the decision..

Murder in new year holidays

The tragedy occurred last New Year's Eve in house number 4 in the 1st Novopodmoskovny Lane, where the Kabanovs rented an apartment. According to the case file, on the night of January 3 this year, they sat in the kitchen, drank, discussed their family life and prospects for divorce. A verbal skirmish led to the fact that the man could not restrain himself: he began to strangle his wife with speaker wire and hands, and then inflicted at least nine blows with a large chef's knife. Later he took wife's body into the bathroom and dismembered it.

Trying to divert suspicion from himself, Kabanov wrote on his Facebook page that his wife left home and did not return. He also filed a missing persons report with the police. The incident attracted public attention: many joined in the search for a woman whose body Kabanov, as it turned out, packed in bags and hid almost all the holidays on the balcony, while there were three small children in the apartment. The man managed to throw two body fragments into trash cans in a neighboring yard. He then transferred the remaining parts to a car he borrowed from a friend. On the night of January 12, Kabanov was detained and confessed to the incident.

"Fantasy and Farce"

The restaurateur was charged with premeditated murder (part 1 of article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), for which a punishment of 6 to 15 years in prison is provided. However, during litigation The defendant pleaded not guilty under this article. Kabanov called the accusation "a farce, which is the fruit of the investigation's fantasy", designed for the public and journalists. Without denying what he had done, he insisted that he committed the crime in a state of passion (Article 107 of the Criminal Code), since the wife threatened to take the children to herself after the divorce. This article provides for a sentence of up to 3 years.

Kabanov stated that he did not remember how he killed his wife, and perceived what happened as. The fact that he did not get rid of his wife's body, the defendant explained by the fact that he did not find the moral strength to do this.

There was no effect

However, the examination conducted at the Institute. Serbsky, found Kabanova sane, and the court did not find grounds for a re-examination, which the defendant insisted on. Announcing the verdict, the judge noted that the nature of the injuries inflicted on the woman indicates that Kabanov “was aware of the public danger his actions and wished for the consequences that followed. "His behavior was consistent, purposeful,"the court stated.

It is noteworthy that during the examination, the doctors gave a psychological portrait of the defendant, in whom experts found a hysterical personality disorder. It is not mental illness. Experts noted that Kabanov has such qualities as egocentrism, overestimation of one's capabilities, ambitiousness and instability of emotional reactions.

IN During the process, the friend of the deceased, Elena Zaritovskaya, recalled that before her death, Irina looked “like a person with nervous exhaustion”, she “really wanted” a divorce, but she was stopped by numerous debts that the spouses could not repay.

“Lesha threatened that he would take the younger children and send her to Ukraine. It seemed to me that this promise struck her down, ”said the witness about the last conversation with Irina shortly before her death. It is noteworthy that the woman at one time sold the apartment that she had left from her first husband in order to open a cafe together with Kabanov. But the project failed.

Prosecutor Andrey Kuznetsov asked for 14 years in prison for the defendant. And the representative of the victim (the mother of the deceased Elena Dukova was recognized as her) lawyer Fyodor Kupriyanov suggested that Kabanov be given the maximum punishment under Part 1 of Art. 105 UK - 15 years. He was inclined to believe that the defendant, who did not repent of the murder and constantly insulted the participants in the process, should have been tried for murder with special cruelty (part 2 of article 105 of the Criminal Code), for which one faces up to 20 years in prison or life imprisonment. However, the investigating authorities were too lazy to investigate the case more thoroughly.

I must say that the defendant himself did not apologize to the victim. “I do not believe that Raskolnikov received forgiveness by going out to the world and repenting,Kabanov said at the final hearing.There are people I would like to talk to. But I don't have that option. Prison is a terrible bore."

Extenuating circumstances

When sentencing, the judge took into account as a mitigating circumstance the presence of two young children dependent on Kabanov. He gave the defendant exactly as much as the prosecutor asked for - 14 years in prison in a strict regime colony. At the same time, the judge fully satisfied the claim of the victim and recovered 1.5 million rubles from the convict as compensation for moral damage.

Reviewing old posts, I suddenly remembered the Kabanov family. Remember how Aleksey Kabanov strangled his wife with linen heather on New Year's holidays in 2013, then finished him off with a knife in the stomach, and then dismembered her body and tried to get rid of the corpse in pieces, but was caught? They wrote a lot about this on LiveJournal and FB, because many people knew the Kabanovs, but more because at first she was put on the wanted list, and everyone wrote words of support to Kabanov’s blog, gave advice, and Irina was dead for a long time. Those. people were worried that they had been deceived, deceived into sympathy for the killer.
Then there were many suggestions why Alexei did this, although the reasons were obvious and lay on the surface. The family had three small children (only two of them were common), there was a lack of money, the husband worked, but his wife was unhappy with him. She had reasons for this: earlier, Kabanov sold her apartment in order to organize his own business. He was a cook, but he wanted to become a restaurateur: he opened his own cafe, but quickly went bankrupt. In addition, Alexei cheated on his wife. They lived in a rented apartment, kept a nanny, Alexei moved from job to job, he was also a player, and besides, they both drank. As a result, on New Year's holidays, mutual dissatisfaction: he was tired, since the restaurant had a parka for the holiday, she apparently wanted to New Year something special, they drank, they quarreled, she said something to him, he became furious - the result is known. He used to beat her sometimes, and she made scandals before. There are about 12,000 such murders in Russia every year.
But due to the fact that all this took place before the eyes of bloggers, the story was discussed for a long time. And so did I, although if I had seen their photos before, the discussion would have gone in a different direction.

The main reason for this is alcohol. And the woman, in my opinion, drank a lot.
Kabanov in April 2014 was given 14 years in prison. He will serve less than 8 years (he has already spent 1.3 years in a pre-trial detention center) and will be released in two-thirds. Maybe he will marry again, and maybe more than once.
Surprisingly, he has no remorse for the murder. He repents that because of the murder, he will not be able to raise his daughter. For some reason, of his 4 children (two more girls from other women), Kabanov loved only youngest daughter. He called her Karp. It happens. This is what he worries about. He also feels sorry for his parents - they are old, sick, in his opinion, they will not live to see his release. He knows that his parents love him very much and forgive everything. He probably feels sorry for himself too. He says that prison is very boring. On the other hand, the colony is probably more fun. Maybe they will send him to the kitchen - it will be with his favorite business. Once Kabanov wrote poetry. In prison, he also asks to send him a collection of poems with programs.
He thinks they gave him too much long term. He killed in a state of passion, but the affect was not recognized. Not fair. And all because of whom? Because of this very wife - brought to prison.
Of course, the story is begging for a book. Here, in my opinion, the most interesting thing is the complete emptiness in the soul of the killer. Once Truman Capote wrote the documentary novel In Cold Blood, in which he tried to understand humanly why young guys ruthlessly destroyed a family of farmers and why they are not ashamed of it. So he did not discover anything interesting - there is nothing to understand there. They killed because they wanted to steal money. No money was found. They thought they were unlucky. Capote's novel is at one extreme, and Dostoyevsky's is at the other. There, Raskolnikov killed because of an idea and to help his family, and killed himself, but here - these killers, as people, never existed in the world. Kabanov, it seems to me, is closer to this pole.
But it is curious that one blogger, Dragonfly, tried to make a name for herself on this topic. She managed to convince everyone that she knew this family very well, although she talked with them only once, she wrote a lot of posts after the tragedy about the Kabanovs, made her way to the KP and MK websites, made a book out of the posts and claims that this Some of the TV channels have already bought a book that has not yet been published for a film adaptation. The book has not yet been published, but lies on the websites of "KP" and "MK". Only it does not look like a book, but it looks like a series of reports. But the author is still trying to prove that Irina is to a greater extent to blame for the tragedy of the Kabanovs, because she was a lazy person, a drunkard and a beggar, and her main fault is that she wanted to live as a representative of the middle class, without having the opportunity to do so.
I must say that the blogger was disliked for this and is very troll.

Still, the killer is to blame for the murder, and the desire of someone to be happy cannot be criminal. Yes, Irina was imprudent when she connected her life with this man, but who could have known how everything would turn out.
Her children today live with their grandmother somewhere near Donetsk (the eldest son with his father in Israel). I hope that at least today's difficult events did not touch them.