The Russian Investigation Committee plans to request the arrest of
Alexander Khodych, head of the Kushevskaya department of
counter-extremism center of the main police department for Krasnodar
Territory. He is suspected of exceeding his powers, RIA Novosti
reports, citing a spokesman for the Russian Investigation Committee,
Ivan Sengerov.
Khodych may be sentenced to up to four years imprisonment.
A spokesman for the Russian General Prosecutor's Office, Marina
Gridnyova, said that the office’s commission, sent to Kuban after the
murder of 12 people, revealed Khodych’s structure in Kushevskaya had
exceeded its powers.
According to the investigation, Khodych threatened a local with
initiating a criminal case against him, unless he gave 6 million
rubles. Khodych confiscated the local’s vehicle, worth 1 million
rubles. He was also planning to take over an Audi Q7.
The head of the press service of the regional police department, Igor
Zhelyabin, said that the Federal Security Service (FSB) had been
looking into the situation since late summer 2010.
The FSB received a note saying that Khodych had appropriated property.
Khodych was working in Kushevskaya Cossack village, where 12 people
were found dead at a farmer’s house on November 5. They include the
house’s owners, Serever and Galina Ametovs, their 19-year old daughter
Yelena and granddaughter Amira, their neighbours, a mother and a son,
Natalya Kasyanova and her 14-year old son, guests from Rostov-on-Don –
businessman Vladimir Mironenko, two daughters - one-year old Alyona
and five-year old Irina, his wife Marina and her parents Victor and
Lidia Ignatenko.
The case stirred up the public, nine suspects were arrested, including
the possible organizer of the murder – businessman and ex-deputy
Sergey Tsapok and his relative – businessman and local deputy Sergey
Tsepovyaz.
