Four “neo-Nazi Satanists” accused of luring a woman to her death as a human sacrifice, then “roasting” and eating another woman have been jailed in Russia.
Andrey Tregubenko, 36, allegedly invited Victoria Zaitseva, 27, on a trip to Karelia, near the Finnish border, in June 2016, where the victim was ambushed by Tregubenko and his girlfriend, Olga Bolsakova, 36 years old, in a forest.
Zaitseva, who was allegedly in love with Tregubenko, died after being repeatedly stabbed with a knife. She was then thrown into a previously dug hole, covered with brush and set on fire.
In August, the couple met Alexander Perevozchikov-Khmury and Tatiana Deryugina, also convicted on Tuesday, who agreed to commit another “sacrifice” with them.
Platon Stepanov, known as Wilhelm Torquemada, 27, was named locally as the man dragged into a forest in the Leningrad region after being treated by Bolshakova, with whom he shared an interest in black magic and Satanism.
Stepanov was then beaten and stabbed to death, as reported by a public agency RIA. The killers would later confess to cutting his flesh and ribs – and roasting and eating the human meat. The body was again hidden in a hole and “burned alive.”
In the third such killing, also in August 2016, Tregubenko stabbed an acquaintance to death while drunk during an argument. The group then retreated to a nearby apartment where they performed a ritual ceremony with the victim’s blood before throwing the knife into a pond.
After three years of intensive investigation, the Moscow Regional Court sentenced the gang to various prison terms for their involvement in the murders.
Olga Bolshakova (nickname Warg), mother of two, suspected of murders committed in 2016
Andrey Tregubenko (nickname Cold Void), 34, father of two, suspected of two murders
Alexander Perevozchikov-Khmury participated in the ritual murder of Platon Stepanov in the Leningrad region in 2016.
The gang members were each sentenced to 13 years to life in prison for their involvement in the cases, which eluded police for nearly a decade.
“The court sentenced Tregubenko to life in prison. Perevozchikov-Khmury was sentenced to 15 years in prison, Tatiana Deryugina was sentenced to 13 years in prison,” the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation said in a statement.
Bolshakova has already been sentenced by the court to a long prison term,” the statement continued.
According to the investigation, Tregubenko and Deryugina met over a common interest in the “religious and mystical movement of Satan worshipers.”
They allegedly carefully planned the ritual murder of their acquaintance in June 2016, before moving on to others and inviting Perevozchikov-Khmury and Deryugina to join them, sharing their sympathies.
The unsolved case gained ground when it was transferred to the central office of the Russian Investigative Committee in 2021.
Tregubenko was first named as a suspect in the disappearances of the victims who disappeared in the Karelia and Leningrad regions, leading to a search of the apartment he shared with Bolshakova.
There, the police allegedly discovered a large package of drugs.
Investigators then received “evidence” implicating them and their alleged accomplices in the ritual crimes, according to RIA.
Tregubenko then allegedly showed police where the bodies had been buried, according to the Russian-language news site Meduza.
An anonymous source involved in the case later concluded that the reason for the murders was “to appeal to dark forces.”
The commission said after the verdict: “Tregubenko and Bolshakova met in the context of a religious and mystical movement of worshipers of “Satan”, which involves human sacrifices.
“In June 2016, they committed the ritual murder of a young girl in the Republic of Karelia by tricking her into a forest.
“The accused then stole the victim’s valuables, disposed of her body and the murder weapon, placed them in a pre-dug grave and set it on fire.
“In August 2016, Tregubenko and Bolshakova entered into a criminal conspiracy with Perevozchikov-Khmurym and Deryugina and similarly committed another ritual murder of a man in the forest near the Priozersk station, Leningrad region.
“In the same period, Tregubenko, in an apartment in the town of Balashikha, Moscow region, during a conflict with an acquaintance, stabbed him in the neck, which led to the death of the man.
“Then Tregubenko, Bolshakova, Perevozchikov-Khmuryi and Deryugina, in another apartment, performed a ritual rite with the blood of the murdered man, which remained on Tregubenko’s hands and knife.”
Tregubenko has been named locally as one of the leaders of the Moscow branch of the elusive “Church of Darkness,” a group of fanatics who ostensibly follow Satan.
Fontanka, a Russian media outlet, reported that “the core consisted of around 30 people – a financial consultant, tax officials, a programmer, a librarian, an x-ray technician, tattoo artists, artists, workers and others”.
They also named Bolshakova as an “employee of the Balashikha tax service,” who met Tregubenko in 2016, the year of the first alleged murder.
Tregubenko was named as a motorcycle enthusiast.
Tatiana Perevozchikova-Khmuraya also participated in the ritual murder of Platon Stepanov in the Leningrad region in 2016.
Platon Stepanov, 27, was allegedly killed in August 2016 in the Priozersk district of the Leningrad region
Viktoria Zaitseva, 27, allegedly killed in Karelia in July 2016
Investigators also linked the couple to the Order of the Nine Angles, which originated in Britain in the 1960s, which attracted neo-Nazi groups, it was reported.
The group was involved in “human sacrifices.” The victims were chosen for their “weak” character, it is claimed.
Tregubenko’s sister Ksenia, 19, a medical student, told the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper that her brother became a Satanist only after starting a relationship with Bolshakova.
“Olga was an ardent Satanist, she had been into this since she was 16,” she said. “She has three occult tattoos.
“My brother fell in love and got stuck because of her. I was against their relationship.
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