Sergey Arakcheev

Sergey Arakcheev is a serviceman, commander of an engineer-sapper company, lieutenant. Together with the commander of the APC (Armoured personnel carrier), senior lieutenant Yevgeny Khudyakov, he was accused of killing three Chechnya residents on January 15, 2003 on a country road near Grozny. According to the investigation, Khudyakov and Arakcheev, who was assigned to an APC crew, stopped a 'KAMAZ' travelling along the road, killed the driver Said Yangulbaev and the passengers Abdulla Dzhambekov and Najmuddin Khasanov, after which the 'KAMAZ' was blown up.

The defence pointed out that there were no documents proving that Arakcheev had been assigned to the APC crew, moreover, the shell casings found at the crime scene did not match the weapons that the defendants had, and no autopsy or internal examination of the corpses had been conducted. In June 2004, Arakcheev was acquitted after a jury court found him not guilty, but the verdict was overturned the same year in November. In October 2005, a jury court again found Arakcheev not guilty and he was again acquitted. This decision was publicly condemned by the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. In April 2005, the verdict was again cancelled. The third trial was held without a jury court, and in December 2007 Arakcheev was sentenced to 15 years in prison. During the third trial, the court repeatedly denied most of the defence motions, and one of Arakcheev's defenders, Alexey Dulimov, was hit by a car.

In March 2015, Arakcheev was granted the right to rehabilitation for charges of robbery and abuse of official powers. On August 5, 2016, the court rehabilitated him on these charges.

On December 16, 2016, he was released on parole.