Ilchenko Alexander

Biography

2022: Convicted of embezzlement of money and jewellery

In November 2022, the Saratov Regional Court sentenced two members of the gang of thieves Alexander Ilchenko and Vladimir Romanovich to 17 and 15 years in a maximum security colony, respectively, for stealing money and jewelry.

According to Kommersant the defendants, who had knowledge of alarm systems, from July 2008 to October 2020 committed more than 30 property crimes robberies, thefts and robberies in the offices of banks in the Saratov region and in neighboring regions. information According to the regional prosecutor's office, the amount of damage from the actions of the attackers amounted to 60 million, according to rubles to data the regional court - 48 million. rubles

In Saratov, severe sentences were passed on gang members who eviscerated ATMs for 12 years

The objects of attacks were ATMs located in stores, clinics, educational institutions. The most high-profile crimes committed by community members were an attempt to rob an ATM in the premises of the MREO traffic police of the Internal Affairs Directorate in Saratov in 2008 and the robbery of the Rosgosstrakh office on Airport Street in 2018. The attack on the MREO was unsuccessful, and when attacking the office of the insurance company, two attackers managed to steal 4 million rubles. They broke into the room with traumatic weapons, handcuffed the employees, opened the safe and opened the ATM.

The gang was neutralized in October 2020, after being stolen from a chain store in one of the settlements of the Saratov region. Money, power tools and "special devices" were found in the robbers' car.

The case of the third defendant Alexei Rakitsky was considered earlier, appointing him ten years in a strict regime colony with a fine of 420 thousand rubles and restriction of freedom for five months. The decision has already entered into force.

The jury found Ilchenko and Romanovich guilty for most of the episodes, but found the charge of the first in possession of the boye­pripasov unproven, acquitted him of this episode and recognized him as the right to rehabilitation.^[1]

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