«Kuschevskaya is not anomaly, hut a mirror of the whole situation in Russia with organized crime. The leading law-enforcement organ constantly report about a reduction in criminality, manipulates the statistical data, massively conceals the crimes, but in this time gangs run rampant in all region of the Russia… The main question is: why so many years did the enormous gang S. Capok operate in Kuschevskaya with impunity? There were suspicionsofmany crimes, including a murder of a farmer, a murder of a girl and hundreds of rapes. The people were practically starved, as in a concentration camp. And they had to keep quiet, because they were afraid. The gang's leader was a local deputy. He fell under the influence of the young deputy's cirkle. There is no one now to fight with the largest groups. Before the tragedy in Kuschevskaya its gang had a lucky streak in the city Miass. The Gang of Kozaev terrorized the city of Berezovsk in the Sverdlovskaya area for several years. It was not until the disturbances, organized by the people after the death of the gang leader, which compelled the authorities to react, that the situation changed.
The lawsuit against the leader of the largest national criminal community „Obschak“ in the Seaside Region (Russian Far East) went on for several years. „Obschak“ had more than 5000 active members. It was not simply a gang but a criminal army. The Chair of the Investigation Committee of Russia Management of the Investigation Committee to Russia fired the chief of the Investigation committee on Khabarovsk Region and his deputy for a breach of the oath. This is the story of what happened before! Not so long ago the Sverdlovskaya area was run by the gang of Chudinov. The gang forced girls aged 12-15 to prostitution. If one did not agree, she wasstran-gled and the dead bodies were buried in the woods. Only accidentally, one of the inhabitants of the town of Tagil found that grave with 15 dead bodies. This was a real shock to the society! The crime was revealed quickly, just like in the case of Kuschevskaya. But before that there had been no reaction to the losts girls for several years. But is it surprising that one criminal could operate against all the officers of the militia, controlling even the public prosecutor? No. They created the perfect conditions for criminal activity which remained unpunished, not a single person was held responsible…
The bandit operated fully confident in his impunity. Besides him there were many others involved in this activity wich lasted for 20 last years in the large cossack village Kuschevskaya, and in nearby areas, where the gang was known as „capoks“
– an organized criminal group (OCG) whose name comes from the surnames of its founder. They robbed, terrorized beat, and killed. After all these murders were obviously not the first for this OCG – in Kuschevskaya alone there are many unsolved murders, including the murder of the farmer Valeria Bogacheva, murderof the members of the local administration of Boris Moscovitch. The leader of the gang – Sergey Capok (some versions of the story say he was a murder on request) was „expensive“ in the region. He was a deputy of Kuschevskaya region. The Gang of Capok begain its operations in the 90s. This is a criminal organization with branches in many cos sack villages of the region also in possession of several legal business – a scattered network of farms, safety structures, where the group's personnel prepared the instructors of the special police».
