Ivan Neparatov, the leader of a mafia clan who was sentenced to 25 years in prison after killing several people, was co-opted by Wagner’s group and sent to fight in Ukraine, and is now being posthumously awarded a medal for courage by the President of Russia, Volodymyr Hood, after he died in Bakhmut. writes The Insider.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on September 2 that the current system of training military personnel in the Russian Federation allows the army to be fully staffed with professionals. On the same day, groups of representatives of Wagner’s Communist Party arrived at a number of Russian prisons to recruit prisoners to participate in hostilities in Ukraine.

By the way, Hotnews reported that Wagner’s group of mercenaries is doing a convincing job of recruiting volunteers from Russian prisons.

An investigation published on July 4 by independent investigative website iStories said that Wagner’s mercenary group had now resorted to offers made to inmates in prisons in St. Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod, Russia’s fifth-largest city, promising them salary increase and amnesty in exchange for 6 months of military service.

Ivan Neparatov, convicted in Russia of thefts and murders, was awarded a murder charge in Ukraine

Neparatov and eight members of his OZH were convicted in 2013 in Russia’s Sergiev Posad. According to the prosecutor’s office, in August 2009, Neparatov and his accomplices attacked a Ukrainian citizen and stole 176,000 rubles (about 3,900 euros in 2009 value). In the same year, members of his gang committed an armed robbery attack in the village of Svatkove and beat a man and a woman who lived in the house they robbed.

In March 2010, Neparatov killed his acquaintance because he refused to lead the gang members to the scene of another robbery. He was kidnapped, beaten and stabbed 88 times, investigators said. During the planned attack, the gang also killed a businesswoman. In addition, Neparatov killed three people who owed him money: in all three cases, the amount did not exceed 10,000 rubles (about 250 euros in 2010 prices).

In July 2013, he and members of his gang were found guilty of five murders, three robberies, extortion, fraud, illegal possession of weapons and other crimes. Neparatov received the longest term of all – 25 years of imprisonment.

Neparatov executed only 12, after which he was co-opted to fight in Ukraine, in military uniform. Posthumously awarded the medal “For Courage” signed by Vladimir Putin, as well as the medal “For Blood and Courage” from the leadership of the so-called “LDNR”.

The insider has a certificate and death certificate of Ivan Neparatov, born in 1988.

According to the documents, Neparatov died on August 5 in the city of Bakhmut, Donetsk region. The cause of death was a shrapnel wound to the head.

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