Former chief nephrologist of St. Petersburg, Alexander Zemchenkov, explained why he first confessed and then refused to plead guilty in the case of the murder of his wife, who disappeared in 2010. This was announced on Thursday, April 22, by the REN TV channel.
As the man noted, he confessed to the murder in the hope that the criminal case against him would be qualified under the article “Murder by negligence.” Zemchenkov noted that he expected to receive a sentence of saw imprisonment for a term of no more than two years.
“Nobody told me that the statute of limitations for Article 109 has long passed. In comparison with the threat of excommunication from the family for up to 15 years, I considered the above punishment insignificant, ”he said.
In addition, the accused stated that he was allegedly under pressure.
In addition, according to REN TV, the former detective, who looked through the cameras at the entrance of the house where the Zemchenkovs lived, stated that the wife of the nephrologist did not leave the entrance on the day of her disappearance.
On the eve of the former Zemchenkov, he retracted his confessions.
Zemchenkov was detained by law enforcement officers on March 31 in the case of the murder of his wife. It was reported that his wife, 50-year-old Irina Zemchenkova, left home for work in 2010, but never returned. They searched for the missing for 10 years.
On April 1, it became known that the doctor confessed to the murder of the woman. He said that he and his wife had a quarrel against the background of the fact that the woman learned about her husband’s betrayal and his plans to leave her for his colleague. The doctor admitted that he had killed his wife and taken her body to the forest of the Leningrad region – where exactly, the man does not remember.
On the same day, Zemchenkov was charged. As specified in the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg, the doctor dismembered the body of his wife and threw it into the garbage containers.
On April 2, the Oktyabrskiy District Court in St. Petersburg arrested a murder accused until April 27.