The Abakan Garrison Court found serviceman Anton Kovalchuk guilty of theft with illegal entry into a dwelling, reported the "Siberian Express" with reference to the court's records.
The serviceman climbed into the apartment through a window and stole a laptop, mobile phone, and money totaling more than 95 thousand rubles, according to the press service of the 2nd Eastern District Military Court.
As the publication writes, in May 2021, the Chelyabinsk Regional Court found Kovalchuk guilty of murder with particular cruelty, committed by a group of persons, and in group sexualized violence and sentenced him to 20 years in a high-security colony. Then 38-year-old Kovalchuk and a 26-year-old acquaintance inflicted no less than 71 blows with hands and feet, a chair, its legs and armrests, a glass bottle, and a wooden box, raped, and then wrapped a wire around his neck and began to strangle. Kovalchuk gagged the mouth and "inflicted deep wounds on the neck with an unidentified object, from which, among other things, the victim died on the spot."
After Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Kovalchuk left the colony for the war, after which he committed another crime. By the verdict of the Abakan Garrison Military Court, he received a total of 17 years in a high-security colony, including the unserved term.