Conviction Divination and fortune-telling services Naberezhnye Chelny, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia · 2017

Tatarstan: five months of separate requests, each for the same curse removal, totalling 154,900 roubles

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

a woman who over five months repeatedly asked the same victim for gold and money, each time 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 shows it sustaining a relationship rather than closing a single transaction. Nothing here was taken in one movement: a ring in early November, earrings at the end of it, further gold and cash over the months that followed, each asked for on the same basis. That structure works because the belief does not expire when an item is handed over — the removal is always still in progress, and a victim who has already given has a reason to give again rather than to conclude she has been robbed. The court's finding that the defendant knew from the first request that she would return nothing establishes that the continuing rite was the instrument, not an intention that failed.

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. 1-1429/2018, Naberezhnye Chelny City Court, Republic of Tatarstan — in accordance with CODEBOOK §10. The victim appears as a single initial and is not named. This is a separate case from the 2026 judgment of the same court which the archive also holds; the offences are eight years apart, the methods differ and the two are not double-counted. ON POSSIBLE OVERLAP: the archive also holds case no. 1-946/2017 before this same court, whose offence dates (March 2016 and April 2017) overlap this record's period and whose defendant is likewise anonymised as ФИО2. The two are treated as distinct prosecutions on the face of the documents — different case numbers, judgment dates thirteen months apart, one victim here against two there, a single continuing course of requests here against two discrete encounters there, and no cross-reference in either judgment. Because both defendants are masked, the archive CANNOT exclude that they are the same person, and this note is recorded so the two records are not read as establishing two separate offenders. The record is dated to 2017, the year in which the offence period ended, the conduct having begun in November 2016. The judgment lists the items and sums individually and states the total as 154,900 roubles; the individual figures reproduced here are those legible in the published text and do not sum to that total, the judgment listing further items in passages not quoted. The case was decided without a trial on the defendant's own application, so the facts are those accepted rather than found after contested evidence. The civil claim was for 144,900 roubles, less than the loss found, and was granted only in part in light of repayment already made. The one-year term is suspended and is not a period in custody. The judgment states an appellate route but records no appellate outcome, and none was found.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2018-11-02 · 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 of fraud causing significant damage to a citizen under ч.2 ст.159 of the Criminal Code. The court found that between early November 2016 and 14 April 2017, under the pretext of removing a curse, she misled the victim and obtained her gold jewellery and money while knowing from the outset that she would not return the property or carry out anything she had promised. The requests were made separately over that period: a 585-standard gold signet ring worth 6,500 roubles in early November 2016, 585-standard gold earrings worth 10,000 roubles at the end of that month, and further items and sums thereafter, including amounts of 50,000, 15,000 and 13,400 roubles. The total loss was 154,900 roubles. The case was heard without a trial on the defendant's application made at the preliminary investigation. She was sentenced to one year's deprivation of liberty, suspended under ст.73 with a one-year probationary period and obligations to report periodically and not to change residence without notice. The victim's civil claim for 144,900 roubles was granted in part, the court taking into account sums already repaid; the defendant's state of health and that of her relatives were recorded in mitigation.

Documented coercion mechanisms

a sustained relationship rather than a single encounter, the requests running from early November 2016 to April 2017
each item asked for separately and on the same stated basis, so that no single request appeared large
the court's finding that the defendant knew from the outset she would neither return the property nor perform anything she had promised
items requested one at a time — a ring, then earrings, then further gold and cash — so that a victim who had already given had a reason to keep giving

Cited record

Sources

court of record criminal judgment Приговор № 1-1429/2018 от 2 ноября 2018 г. по делу № 1-1429/2018, Набережночелнинский городской суд (Республика Татарстан) — Уголовное.: The full text of the criminal judgment, read directly from the Russian judgments database sudact.ru. The court records that «в период времени с начала ноября 2016 года до 14 апреля 2017 года ФИО2... с целью хищения чужого имущества путём обмана, под предлогом снятия «порчи», ввела Т. в заблуждение относительно своих преступных намерений и, заведомо зная, что возвращать имущество и никаких обещанных действий осуществлять не будет, завладела принадлежащими ей золотыми украшениями и денежными средствами». It sets out the requests individually: «в начале ноября 2016 года... под предлогом снятия «порчи» попросила у Т. золотой перстень 585 пробы стоимостью 6 500 рублей», and «в конце ноября 2016 года... под предлогом снятия «порчи» попросила у Т. золотые серьги 585 пробы стоимостью 10 000 рублей», with further items following. The judgment records that the victim «был причинён значительный материальный ущерб на общую сумму в размере 154 900 рублей». The operative part convicts under ч.2 ст.159 and suspends the one-year term under ст.73, granting the civil claim in part «с учётом частичного возмещения».

Source provenance

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Source and tier basis: https://sudact.ru/regular/doc/wIR3OzlxqM6K/ 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; the five-month offence period, the separate itemised requests, the finding of intent from the outset, the stated total, the special procedure and the suspended term taken verbatim from the judgment; distinctness from the 2026 case before the same court confirmed by date and method)

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