Conviction Divination and fortune-telling services Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia · 2019

Tatarstan: 33,000 roubles in cash, gold and a tablet computer taken under a curse-removal pretext

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Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

a woman who obtained money and property under the pretext of removing a curse

Organization

Sovetsky District Court of Kazan (Советский районный суд г. Казани)

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, which the court records as the pretext on which the victim surrendered cash, gold and a tablet computer. Because the case was decided in the special procedure on an admission, the judgment does not set out how the claim was made or what the victim was told, and the archive does not supply that detail. What the record establishes is the pattern's outer form: the curse-removal claim functioning as the reason property changed hands, and the taking extending past valuables to whatever else was available.

Curse or witchcraft threat

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. 1-353/2019, Sovetsky District Court of Kazan — in accordance with CODEBOOK §10. The victim appears as a single initial and is not named. IMPORTANT ON DEPTH: this case was decided in the special procedure under chapter 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, on the defendant's admission and without examination of evidence at trial. The judgment therefore contains only the charge as accepted, and records no account of the encounter, no words attributed to the defendant and no description of any rite. The facts are those the defendant admitted rather than findings made after contested evidence, and this record does not infer any method beyond what the judgment states. The location within Kazan is redacted in the published text. The sentence combines a custodial term with a subsequent period of restriction of liberty under ст.53, which is a set of supervised conditions rather than further custody. The judgment states an appellate route but records no appellate outcome, and none was found.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2019-06-04 · conviction and sentence at first instance

Sovetsky District Court of Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia (Советский районный суд г. Казани). The defendant, anonymised in the published judgment as ФИО1, was convicted of fraud causing significant damage to a citizen under ч.2 ст.159 of the Criminal Code for an offence committed on 18 February 2019 at about 15:10. The court found she took, by deception under the pretext of removing a curse, 20,500 roubles in cash, a pair of gold earrings worth 5,000 roubles, a gold chain worth 5,000 roubles and a Qumo Altair 71 tablet computer worth 2,500 roubles, a total loss of 33,000 roubles. The case was heard in the special procedure, the defendant having admitted the charge in full in the presence of her defence lawyer. She was sentenced to one year eight months' deprivation of liberty with a further eleven months' restriction of liberty, the restriction carrying a curfew between 21:00 and 07:00, a prohibition on leaving the municipality of residence after release and a prohibition on changing residence without notice.

Documented coercion mechanisms

the removal of a curse used as the pretext on which cash and possessions were surrendered
the taking extending beyond money and gold to an ordinary household item, a tablet computer

Cited record

Sources

court of record criminal judgment Приговор № 1-353/2019 от 4 июня 2019 г. по делу № 1-353/2019, Советский районный суд г. Казани (Республика Татарстан) — Уголовное.: The full text of the criminal judgment, read directly from the Russian judgments database sudact.ru. The court records that the defendant, «путем обмана, под предлогом снятия порчи, похитила денежные средства в сумме 20500 рублей, 1 пару золотых серег, стоимостью 5000 рублей, золотую цепочку, стоимостью 5000 рублей, планшетный компьютер марки «Qumo Altair 71», стоимостью 2500 рублей, принадлежащих А.», causing loss «в значительном размере в сумме 33000 рублей». The judgment records that «подсудимая понимает существо предъявленного ей обвинения и согласилась с ним в полном объеме, своевременно, добровольно и в присутствии защитника заявила ходатайство об особом порядке судебного ра[збирательства]». The operative part convicts under ч.2 ст.159 and imposes «лишения свободы сроком на 1 год 8 месяцев с ограничением свободы сроком на 11 месяцев», with the conditions specified under ст.53.

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Source and tier basis: https://sudact.ru/regular/doc/cYHJOiqtdzrp/ 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 curse pretext, the itemised property, the total loss, the special procedure and the sentence with its restriction period taken verbatim from the judgment; the absence of any narrative detail noted as a limitation of the special procedure rather than filled in)

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