.Trial of police officer who killed 2 people, to resume on Jan 11.

MOSCOW, December 31 (Itar-Tass) - The Moscow City Court which is
hearing the case against police Major Denis Yevsyukov, accused of killing
two people in the spring, will resume the trial on January 11.
On Wednesdsay, the court continued to question the injured parties.
One of the witnesses was Ilya Gerasimenko, 19. He said Yevsyukov had fired
on him from a distance of two meters, targeting the chest and the head.
One bullet went out of the body and another still remains in the heart
area," he said.
Gerasimenko was waiting 30 to 40 minutes for the ambulance. He
underwent several surgeries and needs another operation.
"Yevsyukov was neither swaying nor stumbling, he was sighting and
shooting purposefully," he said.
The Court also questioned the common law wife of the driver, whom
Yevsyukov had shot and killed near the department store.
She told the Court that her husband, who had moonlighted as a driver,
told her upon leaving that he would be giving rides to people who
celebrated a holiday in a restaurant.
The investigators said Yevsyukov, as chief of the Tsaritsyno police
station, in a state of alcoholic intoxication, and clad in police jacket,
killed Sergei Yefteyev (the driver of the car that brought him to the
Ostrov supermarket overnight to April 27), and Elmir Turdayeva (an Ostrov
supermarket cashier). He was also accused of the attempted murder of
another 21 citizens.
When caught red-handed, he fired at least nine shots at the police
squad that arrived at the scene in Shipilovskaya Street.
The pistol he used was on the police list of stolen weapons.
A psychological and psychiatric expert examination found Yevsyukov
fully sane. At the trial, he partially admitted his guilt.
A shop assistant, questioned by the Court, said he first saw Yevsyukov
in the trade hall, where he was using a woman as a shield. Since the shop
assistant could not immediately understand what was happening, he asked
Yevsyukov if he needed assistance. Using this distraction, the woman broke
free and fled.
Then several shop assistants and shoppers tried to find a shelter in
the yard and on a roof of back room.
When Yevsyukov demanded that a woman come up to him - the prettiest of
all -- the shop administrator approached him and offered him to give him
the money from a cash desk.
"But he replied: I don't need money, I need your brains," the shop
assistant said.
According to him, Yevsyukov was sober.
He also said he had never seen him at the department store during the
two years since he landed job there, and that he was bewildered over why
the police major had picked on his store.
Witness Yulia Pantyukhina said they were inside the shop when fleeing
personnel told them the cashier had been killed.
They all ran out into the yard, but it was encircled by a high fence.
"We found ourselves at a dead end," said Olga Stakhova, adding that
they found a shelter on the roof of a back room.
Stakhova also said she saw a bullet ricocheting from a fence grating
opposite a police officer. When Yevsyukov fled, the police evacuated the
hostages from the premises of the supermarket even before the police Major
was apprehended.
Police officer Yevgeny Fomin, who was in the detail that overpowered
and detained Yevsyukov, said they had looked for him in back rooms and
even assumed he had climbed over the fence and escaped.
"We were stood in the street smoking when a silhouette rose from
behind boxes and fired a shot. Yevsyukov then was disarmed and brought to
a police station.
According to Fomin, Yevsyukov, though sober, was not behaving
adequately. "He was wearing an odd expression and an odd smile," the
policeman said.
Fomin said Yevsyukov had told him "it would have been more fun if I
had had an assault rifle," and that "one has to so live a life that he
won't want to live it again."
When asked where he had got the pistol, Yevsyukov responded: "you're a
detective you should know where to find a weapon."
The second police officer, Yevgeny Yashkin said Yevsyukov had asked
them to remove his handcuffs prior to the visit by Moscow police chief
Vladimir Pronin.


.Russian banks grant 6-bln-rbls loan to Belarus.

MOSCOW, December 31 (Itar-Tass) - Four leading Russian banks granted a
six-billion-rouble syndicated loan to the Belarussian Finance Ministry for
a period of over one year, and will float its bonds on the Russian stock
market, a joint press release of Savings Bank, Vnesheconombank,
Gazprombank and Alfa Bank said on Wednesday.
"Belarus is an important trade/economic and foreign policy partner of
Russia. The loan will be used toward the development of integration and
cooperative ties between the two countries, and will contribute to the
stable growth of the Belarussian economy," the document said.
The four banks have been designated the organizers of placing the
rouble-denominated Belarussian state bonds on the Russian stock market.
The value of the bonds will make up 15 billion roubles.
"The issue of rouble-denominated Belarussian bonds will become the
first issue of foreign securities on the Russian stock market," the joint
press release said.
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