The former official chose voluntary imprisonment over the investigation and was in hiding for 21 years Source: Maria Grishkina / 86.RU Yuri Chekin is perhaps one of the most wanted criminals of the last 20 years. For decades, he hid in a rented apartment, equipped as a bunker, without revealing his identity to law enforcement agencies. According to the decision of the Khanty-Mansiysk District Court, it was he who “ordered” the Yugra prosecutor Yuri Bederin, who was shot dead in his own entryway by two hired killers in the summer of 2000, and his businessman friend. On July 3, 62-year-old Chekin heard the verdict, according to which he will spend the last years of his life in a special regime colony. Our colleagues from 86.RU recall the history of his crimes, to which, as Chekin himself says, he has nothing to do. Who is Yuri Chekino He was born on January 1, 1963 in the village of Koshkino, Kurgan Region. Yuri Chekin quickly climbed the career ladder, was selective in documents and extremely cautious, and at the age of 30 he already held the position of head of the Russian Ministry of Finance department in Yugra. It was thanks to his talent in accounting and scrupulous attitude to documents that, according to the investigation, in 1993 he was able to steal more than 15 million rubles from one of the oil-producing enterprises owned by the security forces, and initiated a criminal case against Chekin, headed by Deputy District Prosecutor Dzhavid Damirov. According to Damirov, he had irrefutable evidence of Chekin’s guilt, but the case was taken for investigation to Yekaterinburg, where it was allegedly destroyed. The man (Chekin. – Ed.) is hypertrophied by a sick ego. His ego, of course, The criminal case was confiscated and transferred to the prosecutor of the Sverdlovsk region. I believe that this was an appropriate order, since a month later the criminal case was closed, and Chekin was released from custody. a sense of revenge,” the former deputy prosecutor told the Russia 24 TV channel. The conflict was long-term, Damirov spoke about several attempts on his life. He allegedly even had to leave power due to threats from an official. Chekin remained unharmed, but the calm was short-lived. The prosecutor of Yugra, Yuri Bederin, who was famous among his colleagues for his principled intolerance of corruption, at least that is how official sources wanted to present him, entered the investigation process; to a logical conclusion, but could not Three bullets, including one in the head Archive photo of Yuri Bederin Source: Prosecutor of Yugra In 2000, the news of the murder of prosecutor Bederin rolled through the entrance of his own house on Kominterna Street in Khanty-Mansiysk, July 25, 2000. The security officer was killed by three shots, including one to the head. The body was found on the second-floor staircase. The killers were detained two months later in Kaspiysk, Dagestan. Boxing master Rabadan Rabadanov and carpenter Aleksandr Kozin received $50,000 from the organizers of the crime. After the murder, they partied in their native Kaspiysk and the capital, and returned in a new car from the travel agency of Viktor Zmanovsky, who is close to criminal circles. When arrested, he confessed to the crime and said that Yuri Chekin was allegedly the main client. In addition, the investigation believes that Chekin ordered the murders of two merchants from Khanty-Mansiysk: A. Ruppel and B. Izrailov. He allegedly dealt with the former because Ruppel tried to appropriate money earned by fraud, and Izrailov’s murder was related to a gambling debt to Yuri Chekin, which he refused to pay voluntarily. He plunged into the water, remaining right under the noses of the Security forces The official was suspected of ordering a mass murder for some time. Before being put on the wanted list, he resigned due to an unknown danger to his life and disappeared for 21 years. During this time, he did not go anywhere and did not even leave the apartment, which he turned into a bunker, Chekin hid very well, even his family did not know that he was alive, and one of the cubs, as it turned out. later, was still known. The niece of the ex-official Alena, who was also his lover, also knew that when he was detained in the apartment in 2021, the security forces would find purchases from sex shops and even from his porn studio. In 2018, he was almost caught by law enforcement officers, who sent Alena to television with a video message to the President of the Russian Federation, but even then, investigators and agents could not establish his place of residence and the address of Yuri Chekin to President Vladimir Putin Source: Yuri Chekin According to the former lawyer of the ex-employee. Chekin was turned in by his own son Alexander, who was unhappy that his father decided to divide everything he had accumulated during his life between him and his mistress. The son denies this and claims that he was not involved in his father’s arrest. However, on October 26, 2021, security forces searched the apartment on Kalinina Street, 18, where the man they had been looking for for so long had lived all these years, was engaged in business and sports. By the way, this house is located just a few blocks from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the district prosecutor’s office of Russia. The apartment on Kalinina, 18 was rented to Chekin’s son Alexander and niece – mistress Alena. The man tried not to give himself away: he did not use the Internet, lived with the windows curtained and did not go outside. During the search, security forces found his porn studio, a gym and many documents about the business that Yuri ran under the guise of his son in the apartment. And he equipped a hiding place under the windowsill with his Soviet Union citizen passport, where no one could find it. 90s, but also increased it. Now Chekin’s savings amount to about 70 million rubles. Yuri dealt with tax issues of companies and kept financial records. Everything was neatly folded in his hiding place and in order, it was told in detail how he earned a fortune of 70 million rubles Source: TV channel “Russia” Investigation and trial of a former official Yuri Chekin hears the court’s verdict. / 86.RU During the investigation and trials, Chekin never admitted guilt, he claimed that Bederin was treated by completely different people, and perhaps even colleagues of the prosecutor, who were corrupt and promoted the interests of the YUKOS company. At the last court hearing, Chekin claimed that it was the head of the company, Mikhail Khodorkovsky* (recognized by the Russian Ministry of Justice as a foreign agent) who was involved in the death of a high-ranking security officer. prosecutors who were engaged in criminal activity in the 90s. They helped with money, took bribes, participated in the theft of shareholders’ apartments. The people who organized all this against me were those who promoted and covered up YUKOS. For example, deputy. Prosecutor Kalmagorov was fired in August 2003, after which it was possible to arrest Khodorkovsky and bring to justice those who were involved in the murder of the mayor of Nefteyugansk, Chekin said. The accused also stated that the prosecutor’s killers were defended by the prosecutor. FSB officers, judges and investigators for especially serious cases Yuri Chekin believes that the case against him is fabricated. A detailed presentation of his version to journalists and complaints in court did not help Chekin; the jury found him guilty of murder. prosecutor and acquaintance of merchant Ruppel, but acquitted him of attempting to organize a murder; deputy prosecutor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug Damirov and organizing the murder of Khanty-Mansiysk resident Izrailov because of a gambling debt. The court sent the former auditor to a special regime colony, where he will remain for the rest of his days, unless higher authorities change the sentence; the convicted man’s lawyer intends to appeal it*. Russian Ministry of Justice as a foreign agent
Who is the official Yuri Chekin, who hid from justice in a bunker for 21 years, and now the court brought him to life for the murder of a prosecutor – July 4, 2024
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