A gang of Satanists who carried out multiple ritualistic murders in Russia has been jailed.
Moscow-based Andrei Tregubenko and Olga Bolsakova confessed to luring a girl into a forest in the Karelia region and killing her in 2016.
The couple – described as adherents of Satanism – were members of the Order of Nine Angles (O9A), an obscure neo-Nazi group that originated in the UK back in the 1970s.
Specifically, they belonged to a cult called Legion Ave Satan, a chapter of the O9A.
On their now-banned VKontakte social media page, Tregubenko and Bolshakovapromoted O9A, and identified as followers of ‘Traditional Satanism’ and ‘pre-Christian faith’.
Joined by two others, Tatyana Deryugina and Alexander Perevozchikov-Khmury, the pair killed a man named in the Leningrad region a few months later.
Bolshakova lured the victim into the forest, where the gang beat him and stabbed him to death.
His body was hidden in a hole and his clothes burned, while the knife was thrown into a pond.
Her partner Tregubenko stabbed another man to death during a drunken fallout in the Moscow region, then he and the three others performed a ritual with the victim’s blood.
For a long time, their crimes remained unsolved until Tregubenko and Bolshakova were caught with drugs during a search of their apartment in 2021.
Investigators in Russia said the couple, both aged 36, ‘met against the backdrop of a common commitment to the religious-mystical movement of worshipers of Satan, which involves performing rituals with human sacrifices.’
They were arrested and later agreed to show where the bodies of the victims had been hidden.
A video later showed Deryugina pointing police to a spot in a forest, beside a rail track, where the group had carried out one of the sacrificial killings.
‘It was there,’ she told authorities, pointing in the far distance.
An investigator then asked: ‘What phrases, the words you used?’
‘I don’t remember… it was an invocation of dark forces,’ she replied.
Tregubenko was given a life sentence in connection with the three killings.
Deryugina and Perevozchikov-Khmury were sentenced to 13 and 15 years in prison, respectively.
Russia’s Investigative Committee said Bolshakova previously was sentenced to an unspecified term.
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