A rapist released from an eight-year prison sentence and pardoned by Vladimir Putin so he could fight in Ukraine has been arrested again after allegedly sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.
Nikolai Nechaev, 38, from the city of Perm, is the latest of dozens of prisoners, including murderers and rapists, freed by Putin, who have committed new crimes after serving in his forces and having their sentences personally overturned by the dictator. of jail.
Nachaev was previously convicted of rape in 2019, among other crimes.
He fought for Russia in Ukraine for six months until November, when he was fully pardoned for his previous crime.
Just three months later, in February, he is believed to have targeted his next victim.
Pardoned rapist Nikolai Nechaev, 38, rearrested in Russia on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old schoolgirl, just three months after leaving the army.
The rapist served his mandatory six months in the army after leaving prison
The alleged sexual attack on the young woman carries a prison sentence of between eight and 15 years under Russian law.
Nechaev is suspected of “committing violent acts of a sexual nature” against his schoolgirl victim.
He is currently detained pending further investigations.
When he was released by the Putin regime in May 2023, he was assigned to the “special military operation” and abandoned to fight for the brutal Wagner military group.
At that time, the minimum contract for a released convict was six months, and that was precisely what Nechaev signed.
He was in prison serving an eight-year sentence for the rape of a woman in 2019
CCTV footage from that moment showed the dangerous criminal following his victim in the dark.
The disturbing images show the rapist boarding an elevator after following the woman.
Now a criminal case has been initiated under part 3 of article 132 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
The offender does not seem to be able to stay free for long before committing another crime.
The 2019 rape occurred just a month after he was released from a previous prison sentence for other crimes.
However, according to the media DialogueRussian news reports say Nechaev apparently hopes to avoid a full prison sentence once again by re-enlisting to fight in the war.
It is unclear whether he will be able to do so a second time.
Nechaev was only gone for three months before allegedly sexually assaulting his next victim.
He was sentenced to eight years for the rape of a 20-year-old woman in 2019, but was released
According to Russian press reports, the rapist will try to be released once again to fight
Putin, desperate to increase his military numbers in almost any way possible, began pardoning prisoners shortly after the war began.
In 2023, the Ministry of Defense said: “In the coming weeks, thousands of Russian convicts who have fought for the Wagner Group are likely to be pardoned and released.
‘Wagner prisoner recruitment peaked in autumn 2022, and inmates were offered commutation of their sentences after six months of service.
“Although about half of the recruited prisoners are likely dead or injured, evidence from Russia suggests the group is making good on its promise to free survivors.”
He added that the certificates issued to the freed Wagner veterans were “backed by President Putin’s decree.”
But the Defense Ministry said the release of the conscripted prisoners will cause major personnel problems for the Wagner group and Putin’s army.
Putin has been releasing and pardoning prisoners since the start of the war to increase their numbers.
The now-deceased Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said a large number of those freed had died.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the now-dead Wagner leader whose plane “crashed” after he launched a rebellion in the Kremlin in June, spoke the previous January about freeing convicts to fight, or rather, freeing them to die.
As reported by the bbcAccording to him, in one year Wagner recruited 49,000 prisoners to fight and only 32,000 returned.
This is a much smaller proportion than originally promised, but independent researchers believe the actual number of survivors is even lower, around 20,000.
In a video released in January welcoming ex-convicts home, Prigozhin tells them: “You were a criminal, as they say, now you are a war hero!”