Ivashevka massacre

Andrey Gosht's brother Evgeniy came home around 7:30 on the morning after the attack (after working a night shift), found the bodies, and called for an ambulance. The victims were severely beaten with sticks and the body of Andrey Gosht had some signs of torture as if he had been interrogated by killers. Police soon found that the video-recording server for CCTV cameras around the house was stolen by the killers but three cameras under the roof had separate (internal) recording devices. A number of strange facts made the case a lot more suspicious: Andrey Gosht had hired a security to guard the house and his family while he was working in Samara city but released the guard whenever he was at home himself (as he had been that Sunday); furthermore, the family had a guard dog which had been poisoned just a week before.

The police announced a reward of 3 million rubles for assistance leading to the identification of the perpetrator.{{cite news|url=http://www.newsru.com/russia/25apr2016/nagrada.html|title=Полиция заплатит 3 млн рублей за информацию об убийцах экс-главы МВД Сызрани и его родственников|website=NEWSru.com|trans-title=Police will pay 3 million rubles for information about the killers of ex-Interior Minister Syzran and his relatives|access-date=6 June 2017}}

The local police for the Samara region stated that the purpose of the crime was robbery.{{Cite news|url=http://ria.ru/incidents/20160426/1420137958.html|title=В МВД назвали возможную причину убийства семьи под Сызранью|date=2016-04-26|work=РИА Новости|access-date=2017-06-06|language=ru|trans-title=The Ministry of Internal Affairs name a possible reason for the murder of the family near Syzran}}

The SK / IC spokesman informed the media that they had three main versions of the crime but could not reveal them because of the investigation's secrecy.

The first three suspects, Azerbaijani citizens, were arrested during the night of 1 May,{{cite web|url=http://www.ntv.ru/novosti/1625801/|title=Задержаны подозреваемые в убийстве семьи полицейского под Сызранью|last=ntv.ru|website=НТВ|trans-title=Detainees suspected of killing a policeman's family near Syzran}}{{Cite news|title=Three caught|author=V.Markin|url=http://sledcom.ru/news/item/1034080/|website=Sledcom.ru|date=2016-05-01}} and on 2 May they were transferred to Syzran.{{Cite news|url=http://www.kp.ru/daily/26524.7/3541004/|title=Гошта убили не узбеки, а выходцы из Азербайджана|last=СКОЙБЕДА|first=Ульяна|date=2016-05-02|work=Комсомольская правдая (Komsomolskaya Pravda)|access-date=2017-06-06|language=ru|trans-title=Goshta was killed not by Uzbeks, but by immigrants from Azerbaijan}} They made confessions{{Cite news|title=Confessions given|url=http://www.aif.ru/society/law/podozrevaemye_v_ubiystve_semi_policeyskogo_priznalis_v_prestuplenii|website=Aif.ru|date=2016-05-03}} and were charged with murder and robbery on 4 May{{Cite news|title=Accusation|author=V.Markin|url=http://sledcom.ru/news/item/1034547/|website=Sk.ru|date=2016-05-04}}

The suspects lived in the little villages of Shigony (Шигоны) and Kushnikovo (34 km from the crime scene) and in the town of Syzran.

1. Roman Fataliev (23 years old) — from Azerbaijan, lived in the village Shigony, officially unemployed, but worked unofficially on the construction sites (He had the criminal record during his school time - two years on probation for racketeering, assault and battery{{Cite news|title=Old criminal record|author=A.Kuznetzova|url=http://life.ru/t/%D1%81%D1%8B%D0%B7%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C/405602/odin_iz_podozrievaiemykh_v_ubiistvie_siemi_ghosht_byl_sudim_za_vymoghatielstvo|date=2016-05-02}}).
2. Islam Babaev (21 years old) — from Azerbaijan, lived in Syzran, worked with his brother as a builder on construction sites.
3. Orhan Zohrabov — from Azerbaijan, lived in Shigony, studied in polytechnical college. (He had the criminal record - three years in prison for stealing sheep.)).{{Cite news|title=Misteries of the massacre|url=http://www.kp.ru/daily/26524.5/3542218/|work=KP|date=2016-05-05}}
4. Makhmadali Akhmadov (24 years old), Tajik (married a local woman whom he converted to Islam, they have a common child), lived in Kushnikovo.

The last suspect Akhamadov managed to escape to his homeland Tajikistan through Kazakhstan one day before the other three suspects were arrested. According to the Investigative Committee, he was arrested at Domodedovo International Airport when he took a flight from his home city Dushanbe.{{Cite news|title=4th suspect detained|author=V.Markin|url=http://sledcom.ru/news/item/1034271/|work=SK|date=2016-05-04}}). Samara region police chief Sergey Solodovnikov, however, claimed that Akhmadov was arrested on 3 May on the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan,{{Cite news|title=One of the killers caught on the Afghanistan border|url=http://regnum.ru/news/2128040.html|website=Regnum.ru |date=2016-05-04}} and flown to Moscow while detained,{{Cite news|title=The 4th suspect caught|url=http://regnum.ru/news/2127955.html|website=Regnum.ru |date=2016-05-04}} and then to Syzran.{{Cite news|title=To Syzran|url=http://regnum.ru/news/2127966.html|website=Regnum.ru |date=2016-05-04}} Investigators concluded that he was the mastermind of the crime.{{Cite news|title=The massacre organizer named|url=http://regnum.ru/news/2128105.html|website=Regnum.ru |date=2016-05-04}}{{Cite news|title=Tajik Makhmadali with nickname Sashka prepeared the massacre|author=Uljana Skoybeda|url=http://www.kp.ru/daily/26524.5/3542395/|website=Kp.ru|date=2016-05-06}} Akhamadov told reporters in Syzran that he was not guilty.{{Cite news|title=Not guilty - he said|url=http://ktv-ray.ru/novost/mahmadali-ahmadov-zayavil-chto-ne-ubival-andreya-goshta-i-chlenov-ego-semi/6766/|website=Ktv-ray.ru|date=2016-05-04}} Akhmadov said that he was not guilty, had nothing to do with the crime, and was going to return to the Russian Federation to prove his innocence.{{Cite news|title=Suspect took flight back himself|url=http://www.interfax.ru/world/506935|website=Interfax.ru|date=2016-05-05}}{{Cite news|title=Proving unguiltiness|url=http://www.aif.ru/society/law/chernovik_ot_05_05_2016_10_35_lyudmila_kuzmina|website=Aif.ru|date=2016-05-05}}

Investigators concluded that the gang had prepared for the theft or robbery in the village of Ivashevka, with Akhmadov as leader and organizer gathering sticks to use as weapons. They gathered on 23 April around 22:00 near the cafeteria in Syzran and drove to Ivashevka, changing two cars in the process. The criminals chose from two rich houses, selecting the one where the lights went off during the night. They left the car near the village club, went to the house through the field, entered the yard from the behind, and then the house through the open back door.{{cite web|url=http://tltgorod.ru/reporter/?theme=134&page=2&reporter=69376|title=Журналистские расследования - Дикая бойня в дома Гошта: расследование завершено|website=tltgorod.ru|access-date=2017-06-06}} The perpetrators killed all the people on the first floor, then those on the second floor. They left taking the video surveillance system with them. They took two mobile phones, a tablet and 900 rubles in Gosht's wallet.{{cite news|date=2016-10-24|title=В Самаре стартовал судебный процесс по делу об убийстве заместителя начальника областного штаба МВД Андрея Гошта|url=http://echo.msk.ru/news/1861602-echo.html|access-date=6 June 2017|work=Эхо Москвы|language=ru}} Then they drove to Ulyanovsk but stopped beside the river Tisherek, where they buried the video surveillance system and the bloody sticks. They stopped near the "Magnit" supermarket in Ulyanovsk where Fataliev tried to get money from a "Sberbank" ATM using Gosht's bank card, but failed because he did not know the PIN. The video from the ATM is one of the main pieces of evidence in the case.{{Cite news|title=Gang chose the house just because the light were off|author=Uljana Skoybeda|url=http://www.kp.ru/daily/26526.7/3542818/|website=Kp.ru|date=2016-05-06}}

Some experts have expressed doubts about the official version: how a robbery turned to the massacre. They point to the small value of the stolen items, the extreme cruelty of the crime and the elaborate preparations taken: the dog was poisoned months before,{{Cite news|title=The dog was poisoned before|author=A.Berkovits|url=https://life.ru/t/новости/403421/niezadolgho_do_ubiistva_u_siemi_ghosht_otravili_sobaku|website=Laif.ru|date=2016-04-25}} and the dogs in the neighboring houses were poisoned a few weeks before.{{Cite news|title=Someone poisoned all dogs in the village before the massacre|url=http://ren.tv/novosti/2016-04-25/nezadolgo-do-ubiystva-semi-andreya-goshta-pod-syzranyu-kto-otravil-vseh-sobak-v|work=REN TV|date=2016-04-25}}

Investigator Telman Gdlyan has proposed that more experienced criminals, wanting to take revenge on a police officer, might have identified the house to the suspects, telling them that it contained more valuables, encouraging them to commit the crime.{{Cite news|title=Former police chief killed for 900 roubles?|author=I.Medvedev|url=http://www.bfm.ru/news/321980|work=Business FM|date=2016-05-04}}

Another former investigator (by the Procurator General of the Soviet Union in USSR times), now the lawyer Vladimir Kalinichenko thinks there is a parallel with the GTA gang's terror crimes and said: "at least the lack of property robbed tells me that the motives of the crime could be absolutely different. I have my own version. I know that during the last 10-15 years, especially in the Moscow region, in the flats and in the rural houses one can see the arrival of people of Caucasian ethnicity or from Middle Asia, they try to assimilate here, to live with weapons, try to propagate some literature. The news in the media just before these killings informed that one house of worship was discovered and captured by authorities nearby," {{Cite news|title=Explosives were found just on the prayer time|author=S.Petunin|url=http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2978106|work=Kommersant|date=2016-04-29}} "60 persons were detained".{{Cite news|title=More than 50 persons were caught in underground house of worshipе|url=https://www.newsru.com/russia/29apr2016/salafity.html|work=newsru|date=2016-04-29}}{{Cite news|title=Besidea explosives the weapons and ammo were found in the worship place|author=S.Astashov|url=https://life.ru/t/новости/405044/v_molielnom_domie_v_samarie_kromie_vzryvchatki_byli_naidieny_oruzhiie_i_boiepripasy#comments|work=life.ru|date=2016-04-29}} "They had explosives, weapons, extremist literature and so on in this house."{{Cite news|title=FSB: The oath to ISIL was found in house of worship|url=http://63.ru/text/newsline/162733425414144.html|date=2016-05-04}} "That's why I still have another version: crimes with quite different motivations today have just started to occur or are beginning to take place, there are no robberies involved here. We are talking about the destabilization of the situation on the territory of Russia through committing crimes like these. It has all been going on in the West too, for several years, and now it's flourishing".{{Cite news|title=The suspects detained add some questions about the killings in Syzran|url=http://www.bfm.ru/news/322003|work=Business FM|date=2016-05-04}}

Political reactions followed from the moment the names, ethnicity, and citizenships of the suspects were revealed.

A senator from the Federation Council (Russia) Franc Klincevich made a very unusual and surprising political statement for the ruling party "United Russia" about the need for a strict visa regime toward former Soviet countries of "Middle Asia"{{Cite news|title=Federation Council member spoke about visa regime with Middle Asia |url=http://ria.ru/politics/20160502/1424887234.html|website=Ria.ru|date=2016-05-02}} (except Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan){{Cite news|title=The visa regime for Middle Asia was proposed in |url=http://izvestia.ru/news/612300|work=Izvestia|date=2016-05-02}} and about the need to sharpen the requirements for receiving the citizenship of Russia.{{Cite news|title=Media about Gosh't killing: politics, bandits, revenge|url=http://regnum.ru/news/2128191.html|work=РЕГНУМ|date=2016-05-02}}

"Sadistic killing of Syzran ex-police chief with his family by migrants from Middle Asia - it's just already above the limit ... we all remember the terrible death of a Moscow child at the hands of a crazy babysitter from Uzbekistan". Klincevich said directly that we need to decide, what is more important: "Good relations with the former Soviet republics or the safety of the citizens of Russia?"{{Cite news|title=They demand the visa regime with Middle Asia|url=http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2978608|work=Kommersant|date=2016-05-02}} Even the human rights advocates supported this idea.{{Cite news|title=Idea about visa regime against Middle Asia supported by the human rights advocates|author=D.Fedotova|url=http://www.mk.ru/politics/2016/05/02/ideyu-vizovogo-rezhima-so-sredney-aziey-podderzhali-pravozashhitniki.html|website=Mk.ru|date=2016-05-02}}

Later, other politicians also gave support to the visa regime, taking into account the public reaction from the mass attack (with shooting) of migrants from Middle Asia against the North Caucasus ethnical gangs on the Khovanskoye Cemetery (south of Moscow) on 13 May 2016 (500 persons involved, 3 killed, 50 arrested).

Another senator from Federation Council (Russia) and first Deputy of Defence and Security Committee, Evgeniy Serebrennikov, proposed enforcing the visa regime for countries including Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, in order to prevent such incidents.{{Cite news|title=Senator proposed the visas for Middle Asia countries after the disorder on Khovanskoye Cemetery|url=http://vz.ru/news/2016/5/14/810542.html|work=VZGLYAD|date=2016-05-14}}{{Cite news|title=Federation Council supports idea about visas for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan |url=http://ria.ru/society/20160514/1433263680.html|work=РИА|date=2016-05-14}}{{Cite news |title=Visa for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan |url=http://izvestia.ru/news/613643 |work=Izvestia |date=2016-05-14}}

The court proceedings started on 24 October 2016 in closed session, as requested by the son of the main victim. The suspects continued to maintain their innocence.{{cite web|url=https://www.1tv.ru/news/2016/10/24/312613-v_samarskom_oblastnom_sude_sostoyalis_pervye_slushaniya_po_delu_o_zhestokom_ubiystve_politseyskogo_andreya_goshta_i_ego_semi |title=В Самарском областном суде состоялись первые слушания по делу о жестоком убийстве полицейского Андрея Гошта и его семьи |website=1tv.ru |date=2017-05-27 |access-date=2017-06-06}} Two of the suspects demanded a trial by jury.{{cite web|url=http://tvzvezda.ru/news/vstrane_i_mire/content/201610250042-9uvy.htm|title=В Самаре начался суд по делу об убийстве полковника МВД Гошта и его семьи|website=Tvzvezda.ru|date=25 October 2016}}

The verdict was handed down on 22 February 2017: Makhmad Ali Akhmadov and Roman Fataliev were sentenced to life in prison; Islam Babaev to 25 years; and Ohran Zohrabov to 26 years. The next of kin were awarded damages of 12 million rubles from the killers. The son of Helmut Gosht insisted on being informed about the time then the convicts were sent to prison and when they were freed.{{cite web|url=http://volga.news/article/433160.html|title=Убийцам семьи полковника Гошта вынесли приговор|author=Alexandra Budaeva|website=Volga.news|date=2017-02-22}}{{cite web|url=http://tltgorod.ru/reporter/?reporter=74008|title=Приговор убийцам семьи Гошта: пожизненное или 25 лет|website=TLTgorod.ru}}{{cite web|url=http://www.topnews.ru/news_id_100078.html|title=УБИЙЦАМ ПОЛКОВНИКА ГОШТА ДАЛИ ПОЖИЗНЕННЫЕ СРОКИ|website=Topnews.ru|access-date=2017-06-06}}

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