Conviction Divination and fortune-telling services Naberezhnye Chelny, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia · 2016

Tatarstan: two market traders asked for their gold — and for the clothes hanging on the mannequins

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

a woman who approached market traders at their own stalls and asked for their gold and goods on the basis of removing a curse

Organization

Naberezhnye Chelny City Court, Republic of Tatarstan (Набережночелнинский городской суд Республики Татарстан)

Archive classification

This is the archive's application of its published inclusion test. The cited record appears below.

The authority is the claimed capacity to remove a curse, and this judgment is notable for how little it needed to obtain. Both victims were traders working their own stalls — a flower kiosk, a market pavilion — where a stranger stopping to talk is the ordinary business of the day and the trader cannot walk away. The claim converted that encounter into a request for whatever was to hand. What marks the second count is that the request did not stop at the woman's own jewellery: it extended to the dressing gown and jumper on her mannequins, the stock she was there to sell. Once the rite defines what it requires, there is no natural boundary at which the person being asked can say the object is not the right kind of object.

Curse or witchcraft threat
Spiritual healing or treatment

Scope decision

The defendant is not named. Russian courts anonymise published judgments as a matter of course, and this record identifies the case by number and court — case no. 1-946/2017, Naberezhnye Chelny City Court, Republic of Tatarstan — in accordance with CODEBOOK §10. The published text also carries a second, inconsistent case number in its header; the number in the document title is used here. The victims appear as single initials and are not named. ON POSSIBLE OVERLAP: the archive holds a separate Naberezhnye Chelny record, case no. 1-1429/2018, whose offence period (November 2016 to April 2017) overlaps this one and whose defendant is also anonymised as ФИО2. They are treated as distinct prosecutions on the face of the documents — different case numbers, different judgment dates thirteen months apart, one victim there against two here, a single continuing course of requests there against two discrete encounters here, and no reference in either judgment to the other. Because both defendants are masked, the archive CANNOT exclude that they are the same person, and this note is recorded so that the two records are not read as establishing two separate offenders. The 42,500-rouble figure is the sum of the two per-count losses the court states. Compensation was voluntarily paid to one victim in full and one in part before sentence, so the recorded losses were not permanently borne in full. The three-month term is the aggregate under ч.2 ст.69 by absorption and is a real custodial sentence. The judgment states an appellate route but records no appellate outcome, and none was found.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2017-08-22 · conviction and sentence at first instance

Naberezhnye Chelny City Court, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia (Набережночелнинский городской суд Республики Татарстан). The defendant, anonymised in the published judgment as ФИО2, was convicted on two counts of fraud causing significant damage to a citizen under ч.2 ст.159 of the Criminal Code. On 1 March 2016 between 17:00 and 17:30, at the 'Tsvetochny Ray' flower kiosk on the ground floor of a services building, she asked a trader she did not know for the gold items and money she had, under the pretext of removing a curse and knowing she would not return them; the trader handed over 1,000 roubles, a 583-standard woman's signet ring worth 15,000 roubles and 583-standard gold earrings worth 15,000 roubles, a loss of 31,000 roubles. On 1 April 2017 between 10:30 and 11:30, at pavilion S-4 of the 'Zarechye' wholesale-retail base, she made the same request of a second trader, asking not only for her gold but for a dressing gown and jumper hanging on the pavilion's mannequins; that victim handed over a 585-standard gold chain worth 10,000 roubles and a velour dressing gown worth 800 roubles among other items, a loss of 11,500 roubles. The court recorded in mitigation her state of health and that of her family, positive character references from her place of residence, and voluntary compensation — one victim in full, the other in part — and granted the outstanding civil claims for the remainder. She received two months on the first count and three months on the second, the lesser absorbed into the greater under ч.2 ст.69, giving a final term of three months' deprivation of liberty in a general-regime correctional colony.

Documented coercion mechanisms

the approach made at each victim's place of work, a flower kiosk and a wholesale-market pavilion, where a trader cannot leave and a stranger's presence is unremarkable
the removal of a curse used as the basis for the request, with the court finding she never intended to return anything
the request extending beyond the trader's personal gold to her stock — a velour dressing gown and a jumper hanging on the pavilion's mannequins
two victims approached the same way thirteen months apart

Cited record

Sources

court of record criminal judgment Приговор № 1-946/2017 от 22 августа 2017 г. по делу № 1-946/2017, Набережночелнинский городской суд (Республика Татарстан) — Уголовное.: The full text of the criminal judgment, read directly from the Russian judgments database sudact.ru. On the first count the court records that the defendant, «находясь в павильоне «Цветочный рай»... путем обмана, под предлогом снятия «порчи» попросила у ранее незнакомой З. имеющиеся у нее золотые изделия и деньги, заведомо не собираясь их возвращать», the victim handing over «денежные средства на сумму 1000 рублей; печатку женскую из золота 583 пробы, стоимостью 15000 рублей, пару золотых сережек 583 пробы стоимостью 15000 рублей», a loss «на общую сумму 31000 рублей». On the second count, at «павильоне С-4 оптово-розничной базы «Заречье»», she «под предлогом снятия «порчи» попросила у Д. имеющиеся у нее золотые изделия, а также халат и джемпер, висящие на манекенах в павильоне, заведомо не собираясь их возвращать», the victim handing over «золотую цепочку 585 пробы, стоимостью 10000 ру[блей]» and «халат велюровый стоимостью 800 рублей», a loss «на общую сумму 11500 рублей». Mitigation recorded includes «состояние ее здоровья, членов ее семьи и близких, положительные характеристики с места жительства, добровольное возмещение ущерба (одной потерпевшей полностью, другой частично)». The operative part convicts on both counts under ч.2 ст.159 and imposes «три месяца с отбыванием наказания в исправительной колонии общего режима».

Source provenance

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Source and tier basis: https://sudact.ru/regular/doc/dbfNVtOhhJVO/ Corpus classification: court-of-record; evidentiary role: criminal-judgment.
Retrieval: 2026-07-29 · Preserved; Bound by Fear research cycle 2026-07-29 (Russian-language sweep; full judgment read via the browser pane; both stall approaches, the curse pretext, the request extending to stock on the mannequins, both itemised losses, the mitigation and the absorbed three-month term taken verbatim from the judgment; overlap with case 1-1429/2018 before the same court examined and recorded as unresolvable because both defendants are masked)

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