Nodik Kvitsinia

Nodik Kvitsinia is a member of the People's Assembly of Abkhazia who was convicted for the murder of Russian businessman Sergei Klemantovich and his partner Oksana Skarednova.

Nodik Kvitsinia
Member of Parliament
for Constituency no. 34 (Gali)
Assumed office
3 April 2012
Preceded byViacheslav Vardania
Personal details
Born1957 (age 63–64)
Atara

Early life

Kvitsinia was born in 1957 in the village of Atara, Ochamchira District.[1]

Political career

In the March 2012 elections, Kvitsinia successfully ran as an independent candidate for a seat of the 5th convocation of the People's Assembly of Abkhazia in constituency no. 34 (Gali), defeating in the first round two opponents nominated by political parties with 54.52% of the votes.[2]

On 10 April, as parliamentary committees were composed, Kvitsinia was elected chairman of the Committee for Agrarian Policy, Natural Resources and Ecology.[3] Kvitsinia was voted out of this post after he had come under investigation for the murder of Sergei Klemantovich and Oksana Skarednova, and on 7 October 2014, Kan Kvarchia was elected his successor.[4]

Murder of Sergei Klemantovich and Oksana Skarednova

In September 2012, Sergei Klemantovich, the Director of the Russian-Abkhazian scrap metal joint venture EL-Petroleum — Abkhazia disappeared along with his partner Oksana Skarednova. According to investigators, Kvitsinia organised the kidnapping of the pair on 11 September and held them on the outskirts of Sukhumi. When Klemantovich refused to pay a ransom of 2 million American dollars, Kvitsinia paid his henchmen 15 million rubles for their murder, in the village of Adziubzha, Ochamchira District, on the night of 12 September. Their corpses were subsequently dumped into the well of an uninhabited house.[5]

On 11 October 2013, Kvitsinia's four henchmen were detained, and on 14 October, the bodies of Klemantovich and Skarednova were recovered. On 12 December 2014, Kvitsinia was formally indicted. The trial started on 24 March 2015. On 28 October 2016, Kvitsinia was convicted on the murder charges and sentenced to 16 years of strict regime prison (the prosecution had asked for 20 years).[6][7]

By 16 November, Kvitsinia, not present during the pronouncement of the verdict, was still at large, and he was officially declared wanted.[1]

On 16 February 2017, the Cassation Chamber of Abkhazia's Supreme Court ordered a retrial.[8] On 22 February, Kvitsinia was arrested in Sukhumi.[9]

References
  1. "РАЗЫСКИВАЕТСЯ ДЕПУТАТ НОДИК КВИЦИНИЯ". Abkhazia Inform. 16 November 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  2. Предварительные итоги выборов депутатов Народного Собрания - Парламента Республики Абхазия. Apsnypress (in Russian). 11 March 2012. Archived from the original on 11 October 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
  3. "В парламенте пятого созыва - восемь комитетов". Apsnypress. 10 April 2012. Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
  4. "Депутат Кан Кварчия избран председателем парламентского комитета по аграрной политике, природным ресурсам и экологии". Apsnypress. 7 October 2014. Archived from the original on 13 October 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
  5. "СУДЬЯ ЕКАТЕРИНА ОНИЩЕНКО ЗАЧИТЫВАЕТ РЕШЕНИЕ СУДА ПО ДЕЛУ ОБ УБИЙСТВЕ РОССИЙСКОГО БИЗНЕСМЕНА СЕРГЕЯ КЛЕМАНТОВИЧА И ЕГО СПУТНИЦЫ ОКСАНЫ СКАРЕДНОВОЙ". Abkhazia Inform. 28 October 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
  6. "ДЕПУТАТ ПАРЛАМЕНТА НОДИК КВИЦИНИЯ ПРИГОВОРЕН К 16 ГОДАМ ЛИШЕНИЯ СВОБОДЫ". Abkhazia Inform. 28 October 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
  7. Waller, Nicholas (3 November 2016). "Abkhaz Former MP Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison for Murder". Georgia Today on the Web. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  8. "УГОЛОВНОЕ ДЕЛО ПО ФАКТУ УБИЙСТВА РОССИЙСКОГО ПРЕДПРИНИМАТЕЛЯ КЛЕМАНТОВИЧА НАПРАВЛЕНО НА НОВОЕ СУДЕБНОЕ РАЗБИРАТЕЛЬСТВО". Abkhazia Inform. 17 February 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  9. "ОПЕРАТИВНИКИ ЗАДЕРЖАЛИ НОДИКА КВИЦИНИЯ". Abkhazia Inform. 23 February 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2017.


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