Sobol, the leader of a gang of killer police officers, was sent to a penal colony for 16 years.
September 13, 2025
In Yekaterinburg a sentence was handed down to the leader of a bloody gang that operated in the late 1990s–early 2000s and was composed of former police officers. The leader of the "werewolves in uniform," Vladislav Sobol, at the time headed the Department for Combating Illegal Drug Trafficking (OBNON) of the Kirovsky District Department of Internal Affairs in Yekaterinburg.
Vladislav Sobol was detained in May 2024 — a quarter of a century after the crimes he and his accomplices committed. The organized crime group, made up of police officers, operated from 1999 to 2000 and killed a total of 11 people.
It has been established that in October 1999 Sobol personally took part in the murders of Andrey Zakotey and Kamil Kazymov. While carrying out their official duties to maintain public order, the gang members tried to extract confessions from them about drug dealing, and, failing to obtain anything, drove them into the woods and strangled them with belts.
Also involved in this murder were former Kirovsky Department officer Anton Borovik and Konstantin Kotik, a former operative in the department for solving serious and especially serious crimes against persons of the city police directorate.
In April 2000 the gang members killed three more people — suspected drug dealer Oleg Sergeev, his mother and his partner Yelena Prusakova.
"Vladislav Sobol wanted to 'protect' them, but they could not come to an agreement," writes Kommersant-Ural. "According to Vladislav Sobol, he wanted 'easy money' from Oleg Sergeev, but during the conversation Sergeev behaved extremely aggressively, so he had to be killed." The women were eliminated as witnesses.
The gang members killed three more people in June 2000 on Novgorodtseva Street. The reason was a complaint by one of the victims about the policemen to the prosecutor's office. The killers also disposed of the two women who were with the victim as unnecessary witnesses.
In October 2000 the suspects carried out a contract killing — the director of the law firm Intercontract, Viktor Ivanov, was shot dead outside his house on Avtomagistralnaya Street. Their "fee" amounted to no less than one thousand dollars. Investigators believe the murder was ordered by representatives of OJSC Russkie Samotsvety, Kommersant-Ural reports.
On the evening of November 7, 2000, Vladislav Sobol, another "werewolf" Vladimir Semenyuk, and Kotik, having failed to "come to an agreement," shot a man and a woman on Pekhotintsev Street, taking from them a large sum of money — 250,000 rubles — which the man had brought to Yekaterinburg. He had been met at the train station by an acquaintance in a car — another gang member, police officer Oleg Anuchin.
Vladislav Sobol was charged under Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code (contract killing committed by a group of persons). The defendant fully admitted his guilt and concluded a pretrial agreement, which, according to the court, allowed him to avoid the maximum penalty provided for by that article of the Criminal Code.
"I offer my deepest apologies to the victims and regret what I have done. This is a heavy burden and I have felt it in full," Vladislav Sobol said at the sentencing.
On September 10 the Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Yekaterinburg sentenced Vladislav Sobol to 16 years in a strict-regime penal colony. At the trial he stated that he wanted to go to the special military operation.
Earlier in September Vladimir Semenyuk was sentenced to 9 years in a strict-regime penal colony.
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Sobol, the leader of a gang of killer police officers, was sent to a penal colony for 16 years.
In Yekaterinburg, a sentence was handed down to the leader of a bloody gang that operated in the late 1990s and early 2000s and consisted of former police officers. The leader himself, Vladislav Sobol, of the “wolves in epaulettes,” at that time headed the Department for Combating Illegal Drug Trafficking (OBNON) of Yekaterinburg’s Kirov District Department of Internal Affairs.