The key facts
- Daniil Anashkin was sentenced to four years in a general-regime colony, Maxim Rybnikov to five and a half years in a strict-regime colony
- On January 3, 2025, four girls, three of them minors, were taken to a car wash and tortured while being filmed
- This is the first verdict in the case of a group of eight people; the case file runs to 84 volumes, with 15 victims
Verdict in a high-profile case
In Kamensk-Uralsky, Sverdlovsk Region, a verdict has been handed down to two participants in a case involving the abduction of girls and brutal abuse of them at a car wash. Daniil Anashkin received four years in a general-regime colony, and Maxim Rybnikov five and a half years in a strict-regime colony; this was reported by the joint press service of the region's courts (Life.ru). Immediately after the verdict was announced, both were taken into custody in the courtroom. The decision has not yet entered into legal force and may be appealed within 15 days.
What the court established
According to the court's version, on January 3, 2025, the young men, together with an accomplice, forcibly put four girls — three of them minors — into a car. The captives were taken to a car wash on Karl Marx Street, where two of the victims were subjected to torture while the events were recorded on video. The trigger was a quarrel in a messenger between one of the participants in the crime and the girls, accompanied by insults. According to the investigation, the girls were beaten, doused with ice-cold water and car-wash foam. Both defendants were found guilty of kidnapping committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy with the use of violence; Anashkin was also found guilty of torturing minors with particular cruelty, and Rybnikov of complicity in that crime. At the time of the crime, Anashkin had not yet reached the age of majority: he is now 18, and Rybnikov is 21.
This is only part of a larger case
The verdict handed down concerns only two defendants. The criminal case against another accomplice has been separated into separate proceedings, and as part of the investigation into the activities of the alleged criminal group, 15 people have been recognized as victims — significantly more than initially believed. Earlier, Life.ru reported that the case of abuse at the car wash, running to 84 volumes, had been sent to court: according to the investigation, members of the group in 2024–2025 kidnapped people, beat them, extorted money and robbed them, and the case files include a former traffic police inspector accused of aiding the perpetrators. The materials concerning the remaining defendants are being considered by courts of the Sverdlovsk Region, so the final outcomes for the entire case are still ahead.
