Notorious Russian criminal freed from Putin’s jails after fighting in Ukraine: report

A Russian man known as “The Black Realtor” has been released from prison after fighting for six months in Ukraine as part of the Russian army.

Alexander Tutin, a 66-year-old real estate agent who hired hitmen to kill his business partner and his family as well as his niece, signed up for the Wagner Group and returned to Ukraine in June 2022 to fight entered.

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Six months after joining the group, Tutin left his service and walked out of prison, able to travel to Turkey and reunite with his wife, The Sun reported.

Tutin was sentenced to 23 years in prison after he, along with his business partner, Dmitry Zinalov, paid a contract killer $10,000 to kill Zinalov’s pregnant wife and the couple’s children, ages 10 and 14. The hitman used an ax and a machine gun to massacre the family. ,

Alexander Tutin was jailed for 23 years in 2021 after hiring a hitman to kill a family of four.
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Tutin later visited the family grave where he allegedly urinated on it.

According to Radar Online, he attempted to hire another hitman to kill his niece over her $100,000 inheritance, offering $9,000 for the contract, but the hitman turned out to be an undercover cop.

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Now a free man after serving in Ukraine, Tutin’s release has drawn further criticism of the Wagner Group and its recruitment methods, which increasingly rely on prisoners to bolster the embattled Russian forces.

Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin attends the funeral of Dmitry Menshikov, a Wagner Group fighter who died during a special operation in Ukraine, at the Belostrovskoye cemetery outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2022. (AP Photo)
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Wagner’s chief of staff, Yevgeny Prigozhin, recommended Tyutin for the Order of Courage medal for his “battlefield bravery”, particularly as part of an operation that stormed a fortified settlement. Prigozhin praised Tyutin’s “decisive and skillful actions”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, attends the Victory Day military parade marking the 77th anniversary of the end of World War II in Moscow, Russia, Monday, May 9, 2022. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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But he had to defend Tyutin’s support with other convicted criminals in his service.

Prigozhin reportedly explained, “Let me explain to you the philosophy of the prisoners of war participating in the prison.” “A prisoner killed a family of four. You don’t know or have seen that family, but you feel angry about it.”

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“That prisoner went to war and was killed. Or, by some miracle, he survived,” continued Prigozhin. “He is a murderer, and in battle he is worth three or four or even more dandelion boys with milk still wet on their lips.”

“Among those dandelion boys are your son, your father, and your husband,” he said. “Then weigh it. Do you want the murderer to go to war, or your family members?”

“This story is almost certainly part of a PR campaign run by Yevgeny Prigozhin, Putin’s chef turned head of his personal hit squad, the Wagner Group,” said Rebekah Koffler, president of Doctrine & Strategy Consulting and a former DIA intelligence officer. told Fox News. Digital. “On Wednesday, Prigozhin who has been widely criticized for letting dangerous criminals go free, attacked journalists with a verbal tirade on Wednesday, asking if any of them would volunteer to go to Ukraine , or are they just peeing in their pants, which means cowards.”

Koffler continued, “She insisted that your fathers, brothers, sons could be those unmarried boys who were sent to Ukraine and killed.” Prigozhin said that it was only by chance that Tyutin survived the war. What didn’t add to the propaganda campaign is that Tutin isn’t even a professional killer, he hired a professional killer for the murder he ordered.”