Alexander Sergeychik
| Alexander Sergeychik | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Alexander Vasilyevich Sergeychik 1970 Semyonovka village, Byerastavitsa District, BSSR |
| Died |
26 November 2007 (aged 36–37) Minsk, Belarus |
| Cause of death | Execution |
| Criminal penalty | Death |
| Conviction(s) | Murder |
| Details | |
| Victims | 6-12 |
Span of crimes | 2000–2006 |
| Country | Belarus |
| State(s) |
Grodno District Shchuchyn District |
Alexander Vasilyevich Sergeychik (Belarusian: Аляксандар Васільевіч Сяргейчык; born in 1970 in Semyonovka village, Byerastavitsa District, BSSR — died November 26, 2007, Minsk, Belarus) was a Belarusian serial killer who committed his crimes between 2000 and 2006 in the territory of Shchuchyn District and Grodno District. He confessed to a total of twelve people, however, the investigation could only prove six of them. He was sentenced to death by the court.[1]
Biography
Alexander Sergeychik was born in 1970 in the village of Semyonovka village, Byerastavitsa District, BSSR, in a large family. He had a brother and a sister. Sergeychik's father was an alcoholic who often beat his wife and children, and then completely abandoned the family for another woman. Sergeychik graduated from the Makarovskaya secondary school. Then he studied in a vocational school to be a driver. From 1989 to 1991 he served in the Armed Forces of the USSR, before being demobilized in November 1991. After the demobilization he returned to his native village, where he worked as a driver for a local enterprise.
In March 1992, he saw an announcement about recruitement for the police, after which he applied there for service. Soon Sergeychik graduated with honors from the Ministry of the Interior Academy of the Republic of Belarus, married, and had two children. He worked as a company commander of the Grodno District Department. In the workplace he was described as a "responsible and executive worker". At the time of his arrest, he had the rank of senior police lieutenant.
Crimes
Alexander Sergeychik committed his first crime on Septepmber 18, 1992, having stolen a trailer on the collective farm "Oktyabr", after which he began to open up the garages, stealing several cars with the purpose of selling their parts and stealing property from private garages. As a result, he managed to get a hunter carbine, found in one of the garages, in addition to a Walther PP pistol and several dummy grenades. During the investigation it was found out that in just 14 years Sergeychik had stolen property for 900 thousand dollars.
He committed his first murder in April 2000, when he picked up 21-year old Helen Boltak by car as a traveling companion, driving her 76 squares in the Shchuchyn District forest, where he drank a bottle of alcohol prepared beforehand, engaged in sexual intercourse with the girl, and when she lost consciousness, he strangled her, then doused her with gasoline and lit it on fire after taking all her jewelry and cash.
In June 2000, Sergeychik came to the apartament of his 31-year old mistress, the head of the warehouse of the Shchuchyn Meat Processing Plant Svetlana Pyrskaya. After a quarrel with her about divorcing his wife Alexander, according to his own words "in a fit of anger" and "under the influence of alcohol", strangled the woman with a TV cable, then staged her suicide by hanging her in the bathroom, after which he took all the cash from the apartament that he could find.
The next crime Sergeychik did was in late July 2000. After acquainting himself with 19-year old Lyudmila Kodik, the murderer took her out on the pretext of resting on the bank of the Neman river, where he drank alcohol with the victim, engaged in sex with her, after which, after a severe beating, strangled her with a rope prepared in advance and dropped the body into the river. After that Sergeychik robbed the victim's bag, taking the victim's apartament keys, which he then also ransacked, stealing all money in addition to several orders of the deceased veteran who previously had resided in the apartament.
In 2001, Sergeychik did not commit any murder, but beat several detainees for drinking alcohol in public places.
The next murder he committed was in September 2002, along with his accomplice, his 18-year old nephew Dmitry Barkov. Initially, the criminals drove a car several hours along the streets of Grodno in search of a suitable victim, but without finding anyone, they drove out of town, where they saw a VAZ-2106 zhigula parked near the roadside. After that, stopping the car nearby, Sergeychik and Barkov, armed with Alexander's pistol, approached the car. Sergeychik knocked on the driver's door, after which he demanded that the driver, Viktor Syrytsya, give the keys to the car, presenting his service certificate. The driver was shot in the head through the windshield, but survived. Then Sergeychik and Barkov dragged the seriously injured Syrytsya away from the car and beat him to death.
The girl who was at the passenger seat, Syrenitsa Elena Turchennik, tried to escape, but Barkov noticed her and, after catching up to her, seriously beat her and dragged her to the car. Both criminals then took turns raping her, before Sergeychik strangled her with a cable. They robbed the victims afterwards, tied the corpses with a car cable and left them in the trunk of the car.
In November 2003, Sergeychik, while on duty, beat up a detainee in the workplace and used a gas canister against him, as a result of which he had to call for an ambulance, but then the case was "hushed up".
In February 2005, Sergeychik, in a state of intoxication, quarreled with his wife and came to the mistress of his married police friend Malyshko V.C. - Natalia Basis. Earlier Malyshko and Sergeychik had drank alcohol at her Basis'. However, after several hours Sergeychik returned to the apartament, where he beat up the landlady, then raped her, strangling her with her bra and leaving the corpse in the bathroom. Having stolen valuable items from the apartament, he fled the crime scene.
Arrest and trial
After the murder of Basis, all her friends were investigated, including Sergeychik, who by that time had already resigned from the body of internal affairs. He was summoned for interrogation, since his fingerprints were found on the fragments of a bottle, which he had broken on Basis' head. Sergeychik tried to deny any connection to the murder, but began to get confused during the testimony and came under suspicion. After the police searched his apartament and two car garages, item stolen from Kodik's apartament were located, in addition to an arsenal of weapons and other stolen property. As a result, in February 2006, the former policeman was charged with two murders and robberies, for which he was imprisoned.
Soon he was charged with four more murders, since traces of his DNA were found at the places where they were committed. So Sergeychik began to give out confessions, confessing to the murders of eleven women and one man, committed by him from 2000 to 2006. In addition to the proven crimes, Sergeychik confessed to the murders of Olga Geroshchuk, Olga Shor, Elena Runets, Yulia Yatsyshina, Gulnara Azizova and Alexandra Kornat. According to the criminal, all of them were raped and killed, then either burned or dropped into the Neman. The bodies were never found, so the accusations of these murders were not brought against him.
Psychiatrists admitted that the serial killer was sane.
The trial of Alexander Sergeychik and Dmitry Barkov began on February 20, 2007, and was held in closed mode. Sergeychik was accused of a number of articles of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus: committing murders with "special cruelty to conceal another crime from hooligan motives", rape, theft of property, including theft of firearms, illegal carrying, storage, transportation of firearms, ammunition, explosives and explosive devices.[2]
On May 22, 2007, Alexander Sergeychik was found guilty of all charges he was accused for, and was sentenced to an exceptional penalty by the Grodno District court - the death penalty through execution with confiscation of all his property. Dmitry Barkov was sentenced to 10 years in a penal colony.[3] The Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus left the verdict unchanged.
On November 26, 2007, the verdict of Alexander Sergeychik was carried out.[4]
Consequences for the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus
Sergeychik's arrest led to a scandal in the law enforcement bodies in the Republic of Belarus. On October 28, 2007, President Alexander Lukashenko signed Decree No. 540 "On incomplete service compliace." For violations of the lawfulness and inaction of this case to strict disciplinary responsibility, according to the Prosecutor General of Belarus Petr Miklashevich, "a number of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and prosecutors have been recruited from the General Prosecutor's Office to the regional district levels."
As a result, the first deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs RB Alexander Shchurko was warned.
The reprimands were announced to the State Secretary of the Security Council Viktor Sheiman, Interior Minister Vladimir Naumov, his deputies Viktor Filistovich and Viktor Zhiburtovich, Deputy Prosecutor General Stepan Kosukha and Viktor Prus. Strict reprimands were announced to the former head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Grodno oblast executive committee, and now to the deputy of the House of Representatives Anatoliy Beloshevsky, the former first deputy head of the Internal Affairs Director Viktor Zherebilo, the former heads of the Grodno regional administration of the Okhrana association under the MVD Vladimir Pekarsky and Ivan Zmurshchik. The former First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Mikhail Udovikov is deprived of the award firearms.
On October 31, 2007, the prosecutor of the Grodno region Vasiliy Litvinov, his deputy Vladimir Onisko and the prosecutor of the Oktyabrsky District of the city of Grodno, Boris Taranko, were relieved from their posts.[5]
See also
Notes
- ↑ Чаровская К. Расплата высшей мерой // Советская Белоруссия, 23.05.2017
- ↑ Суд над бывшим милиционером, обвиняемом в 12 убийствах, начнется 20 февраля // Naviny.by. Белорусские новости, 26.01.2007
- ↑ Дорощёнок Т. В Беларуси бывшего милиционера-убийцу приговорили к расстрелу // Naviny.by. Белорусские новости, 22.05.2007
- ↑ Будкевич В. Бывший милиционер-убийца Сергейчик расстрелян // Naviny.by. Белорусские новости, 28.11.2007
- ↑ Золотницкий А. Силовики получили по шапке // Naviny.by. Белорусские новости, 31.10.2007