Ex-deputy of the “LDPR” from the Taseevsky District Council of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Alexander Khakonov, who was sentenced to 9 years and 8 months in a strict regime colony for the murder of his wife, escaped punishment by joining the Wagner PMC. This was reported by local publications NGS24.RU and TVK , citing anonymous sources.
On July 6, 2022, 52-year-old Khakonov was sentenced in the case of the murder of his 35-year-old wife (Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code). He twice tried to appeal the verdict, but it was upheld, the prosecutor's office of the Krasnoyarsk Territory reported .
The source of NGS24.RU claims that Khakonov joined the Wagner PMC in a pre-trial detention center. He has been under arrest since April 4, 2022.
According to the case file, on March 28, 2022, Khakonov was drinking with his wife at home, that evening they quarreled. Khakonov hit his wife 19 times in the face, neck, arms and legs, she fell to the floor. At the same time, the woman “did not commit any illegal actions,” the verdict says. The husband took a kitchen knife from the floor and "delivered two blows to his wife with the tip of the blade in the front surface of the chest on the left." Khakonov himself claims that he offered his wife to have sexual intercourse with him, according to him, she refused and "began to humiliate him like a man." As a result, he beat her and stabbed her, after which he got scared and left, but returned after a while and put the body in the trunk of a car. By car, he drove towards the landfill, where he threw out the knife, and laid out the body a little further and covered it with branches. He also burned the clothes in which he committed the crime, and the next day he came to the police and reported "the disappearance of his wife."
In April, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, a Russian who returned from the war in Ukraine killed his wife in front of their children, aged 6 and 7. The Insider drew attention to the fact that former prisoners who returned from the war, who are taken to the Wagner PMC, after the release promised by the authorities and arrival in their hometowns, terrorize the local population. They also become addicted to alcohol or die from overdoses of psychoactive substances, and some prisoners return to crime again, in Russia several cases of murders are already known.