On June 15, 2022, it will be exactly 25 years since the death of Larisa Nechaeva. Rucriminal.info has already reported the details of the murder of the former CEO of the most popular club in the country, Larisa Nechaeva. But the son of Larisa Gennadievna, Andrey, has only now finally lifted the veil of a high-profile crime. And a sports journalist, author of books about football, Alexei Matveev, prepared this material especially for the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info.
"SYSTEM ON SELF-SCORE"
“About a year and a half after the tragedy, at the end of 1998, I got a call from Petrovka,” Andrei recalls. - And they offered ... to pay a certain amount for a possible operation to catch the perpetrators of the murder. They seemed to be in the hands of people from Chechnya, who could pass off the criminals for a certain bribe. That is, a ransom was required. I and my family members, of course, did not have such an amount, and could not have. Income is very modest. After the refusal to pay, the “benefactors” from Petrovka did not call again.
It turns out that representatives of the domestic law enforcement system have switched and, apparently, for a long time to the principles of "self-sufficiency". Say, if the relatives and friends of the deceased (deceased) can pay for the operation to search for and deliver the "offenders" of their relative, then please come to our, cop's offices. With a certain amount.
Otherwise, there is nothing to count on. "Free" cunning law enforcement officer will not lift a finger. I would like to believe that this does not apply to all representatives of law enforcement agencies. But apparently most of them. Judging by the level of “solved” serious crimes.
Larisa Nechaeva, according to her eldest son, almost did not devote close people to her affairs, so that, apparently, they slept peacefully. In her masculinely mean phrases, however, it slipped that she got involved in a very difficult and unpleasant enterprise.
- It showed through in her stories, - Andrey admits. - In particular, it was very difficult for her to communicate with the then vice-president of the club, Grigory Esaulenko. Was there a premonition of trouble? The very air seemed to be saturated with it. Somewhere since March 1996, the situation in Spartak became especially tense. I visibly felt it. Especially when my mother herself, her brother and my uncle Gennady Sorokin, who was her personal driver, started talking about professional bodyguards. Like, it's time to start them, away from sin. But somehow everyone put off the much-needed measure. Mom, I saw, she simply did not believe in such a nightmarish and close denouement.
Larisa Gennadievna was an imperious, moderately proud, purposeful woman. Advice to go aside, look around, at some moments “keep your head down” did not take. According to the conversations of people from her inner circle, she became excited. Nechaeva turned out to be a very successful business woman. And she was not going to quit her job, even being on the verge of life and death.
- Until the last days, my mother maintained good relations with Oleg Ivanovich, because it was he who called her to work in the club, - says Andrey. - But it seems that Romantsev, at his end, no longer decided anything at Spartak, other people did it for him ... And so, my mother was known as a think tank, worked out all the club deals in detail. The head coach and the president only signed the documents prepared by the general director. Romantsev used to be an icon for me. The best coach in Russia. And when I found out that my mother was communicating with Oleg Ivanovich himself, I experienced a feeling close to delight. What team should I root for, if not for Spartak, I thought then. But admiration gradually gave way to disappointment. Thanks to my mother, of course, I joined the inner life of the team, communicated with people working in it. He attended matches of his favorite club, both in Moscow and abroad.
CUSTOMERS OF THE MURDER CALLED TO "SPARTAK"
- I would characterize the atmosphere as follows: total hypocrisy. Basically, people behaved unnaturally, completely insincere, - Andrey continues. - I began to avoid many of them ... After my mother died, Oleg Ivanovich never called. I am grateful to him for only one thing: the Spartak boss paid for my studies at the Law Academy for three years in advance. We discussed this with him during my mother's funeral. I understood that time was working against me, it was necessary at that moment to talk with Romantsev.
Curiously, Yuri Zavarzin, the closest associate of Grigory Yesaulenko, who became the general director of Spartak after the death of Larisa Nechaeva, called the eldest son of the murdered woman to work in the club.
“Of course, I refused,” Andrei recalls. - I understand that many club employees are connected with each other in one way or another, and for my sake they will not change the style of work, communication. Therefore, it was not worth going there, at least for security reasons.
- I wanted to ask again about this, - continues the son of Larisa Nechaeva. “Perhaps someone will blame me for deciding to leave this matter as it is. If you are not lucky with the investigation right away, then what can you do? It's useless to investigate on your own. I, objectively, do not have such opportunities. Yes and St. in law enforcement agencies are absent. However, there is still a faint hope. Maybe someone "upstairs" will give impetus to the investigation of my mother's murder?! Her beliefs largely coincided with the attitudes of the current president of the country. As regards the development of physical culture and sports, for example. Mom was even nominated for deputies of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Help, Vladimir Vladimirovich, please give a command to law enforcement officers to investigate the case to the end!
According to the feelings of Andrei and his relatives, the severity of the loss of a loved one has somewhat dulled over the past years. However, the son of Larisa Nechaeva is not going to put up with the impunity of criminals. Although I didn’t want to artificially cultivate a sense of revenge either. What for? He does not really believe that it is possible to find the customer and, most importantly, the killers who fired several bullets into his mother and uncle, who miraculously survived.
Too much time has passed. It seemed that the obvious moments of "getting" the villains were missed. And every day, in his words, works against the triumph of justice.
According to Andrey, the name and surname of the customer were announced by the investigators, as well as by his own uncle. Everything points to Mr. Esaulenko. By the way, Grigory Vasilievich earlier, during the life of Larisa Gennadievna, for some reason diligently avoided communication with her son. Then Andrei did not attach any importance to the somewhat strange behavior of the Spartak boss.
“I thought that people like Esaulenko, who own a solid fortune, are closed, unsociable,” recalls Nechaeva’s son. - Later, I began to evaluate the processes that took place in the team I once loved in a different way. Now a lot of things seem ominous.
Relations with his uncle, Gennady Sorokin, the brother of Larisa Gennadievna, Andrei, of course, supports. Gennady Gennadievich survived the massacre in the village of Taratino, but remained disabled. And some time after the tragedy, he completely left the capital, returning to his small homeland, to Alushta.
Alexey Matveev
To be continued
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