Russian rapist pardoned by Putin so he could fight in Ukraine is rearrested after ‘sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl’

A rapist freed from an eight-year prison sentence and pardoned by Vladimir Putin so he could fight in Ukraine has been arrested again after allegedly sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.

Nikolai Nechaev, 38, from the city of Perm, is the latest of dozens of prisoners, including murderers and rapists, released by Putin and committing new crimes after serving in his armed forces and having their prison sentences personally annulled by the dictator.

Nachaev was previously convicted of, among other things, rape in 2019.

He fought for Russia in Ukraine for six months, ending in November when he was granted a full pardon for his earlier crime.

Just three months later, in February, he allegedly attacked his next victim.

The rapist served his six mandatory months in the army after being released from prison

The alleged sexual assault on the young girl carries a prison sentence of eight to 15 years under Russian law.

Nechaev is suspected of ‘committing violent acts of a sexual nature’ against his schoolgirl victim.

He is currently in custody pending further investigation.

When he was released by Putin’s regime in May 2023, he was assigned to the ‘special military operation’ and left to fight for the brutal Wagner military group.

At the time, the minimum contract for a released convict was six months – and that is exactly what Nechaev signed up for.

Now a criminal case has been initiated under Part 3 of Article 132 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

It seems that the perpetrator cannot be free for long before committing another crime.

The 2019 rape happened just a month after she was released from a previous prison sentence for other crimes.

However, according to news media DialogueAccording to Russian news reports, Nechaev apparently hopes to avoid another full prison sentence by signing up to fight in the war again.

It is still unclear whether he will be able to do that a second time.

He was in prison serving an eight-year sentence for raping a woman in 2019

CCTV footage from that time showed the dangerous criminal following his victim in the dark

The terrifying footage shows the rapist walking into a lift after following the woman

Putin, desperate to increase his military numbers in virtually any way possible, began pardoning prisoners not long after the war began.

In 2023, the Ministry of Defense said: ‘In the coming weeks, thousands of Russian convicts who fought for the Wagner Group are likely to be pardoned and released.

“Wagner inmate recruitment peaked in the fall of 2022, with inmates offered a commutation of their sentences after six months of service.

“Although about half of the prisoners recruited are likely killed or injured, evidence from Russia suggests the group is delivering on its commitment to freeing survivors.”

It added that certificates issued to released Wagner veterans were “validated by President Putin’s decree.”

But the Defense Ministry said the release of the recruited prisoners will cause significant personnel problems for the Wagner group and for Putin’s military.

Nechaev was only free for three months before he allegedly sexually assaulted his next victim

He was sentenced to eight years for the rape of a 20-year-old woman in 2019, but was released

According to Russian news reports, the rapist will again try to be released to fight

The late Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said a large number of those released had died

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the late Wagner leader whose plane “crashed” after he launched an uprising against the Kremlin in June, spoke in January last year about releasing convicts to fight, or rather, releasing them to die.

As reported by the BBCHe said that over the course of a year, Wagner recruited 49,000 prisoners to fight and only 32,000 returned.

That’s a much lower percentage than he originally promised, but independent researchers believe the actual number of survivors is even lower, around 20,000.

In a video welcoming ex-prisoners home in January, Prigozhin tells them: “You were a perpetrator, as they say – now you are a war hero!”