The key facts
- The verdict was handed down in absentia: the accused fled and was placed on an international wanted list
- The double murder took place on March 4, 1993, on Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya Street in Moscow
- The investigation was resumed in June 2026, which made it possible to bring the case to a verdict
In-absentia verdict in a 33-year-old case
The Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow has sentenced in absentia to 12 years imprisonment a man who committed a double murder in 1993. One of the victims was a Kharkiv criminal authority known by the nickname Chasik. This was reported by the MK.ru website, whose data is cited by Life.ru.
A money dispute and a killing on Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya
According to the publication, the crime was preceded by a dispute over money. Chasik, together with an acquaintance, had opened a commercial firm in Moscow that served as a cover for racketeering. Upon learning that his partner was hiding part of the income, the accomplice came to settle accounts. The showdown took place on March 4, 1993, in an apartment on Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya Street, which Chasik rented together with a female market vendor. The attacker strangled the apartment's owner and shot dead a friend who was visiting; the woman was not home at the time.
How the case reached the court
After the killing, the murderer fled, was placed on an international wanted list, and the investigation was suspended. In June 2026, the case was resumed: evidence was gathered that made it possible to bring it to a verdict. Since the accused remains at large, the verdict was handed down in absentia — in effect, a court decision in the case of a person who has been wanted for more than three decades.
A separate case in the Urals
Life.ru also recalls another, unrelated case: a verdict was handed down in Sverdlovsk Region for the murder of a nine-year-old girl, committed in 1999. The crime remained unsolved for more than a quarter of a century; the perpetrator was sentenced to 16 years in a strict-regime penal colony. This is an independent proceeding and is not connected with the Moscow verdict.
