Vladimir Putin has
posthumously decorated a sinister five times murderer as a war hero.
Ruthless gang leader and
killer Ivan Neparatov, 34, who led a murderous gang was one of the thousands of
jailed inmates recruited to fight in Russia’s bloody war in Ukraine.
He had served almost half of a
25-year sentence for multiple murders when he joined the pro-Putin Wagner
private army and was posted to the frontline in Ukraine.
A report said he was “quickly
liquidated”.
Putin had been accused of
recruiting in Russian jails and offering to quash the sentences of murderers,
rapists and other serious criminals after they served in Ukraine.
Critics said they were “cannon
fodder” and there were indications of a high death rate.
Chess-playing killer Neparatov
was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage by Putin.
He posthumously received
another order ‘for blood and courage’ from the so-called Donetsk People’s
Republic.
He had been serving his jail term at bleak
strict regime penal colony No. 6 in the Pskov region for murders committed by him
and his gang who wore police uniforms and masks.
He had been imprisoned with
eight of his gang members for a campaign of murder and terror.
