Sergey Skorochkin was born on 10 July 1961 in the city of Nazarovo, Krasnoyarsk Krai, to a working-class family.

[1] Skorochkin was nominated to the State Duma by a group of voters "Union of December 12 [ru]", and joined the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia faction.

On Easter night from 1 May to 2 May 1994, a Georgian national, Irakli Shanidze and his cohabitant, 26-year-old Oksana Guseva, were shot by a Kalashnikov rifle in Zaraysk.

I think you would do the same!” However, according to investigators, he acted by no means in a state of irresistible impulse but very professionally: he shot directly from the window of a Volga, firing 18 bullets.

Skorochkin himself repeatedly ignored calls to the prosecutor's office for interrogations, and soon moved to live in the UK, citing the interests of his family's safety.

[3] On 1 February 1995, Skorochkin was kidnapped in Zaraysk at about 11:35 p.m. from the bar "At Viktor's" by a group of unknown men in camouflage clothing.

An autopsy showed that Skorochkin was shot five times in the head with a TT pistol,[5] which severely disfigured his face.

It was found that by the beginning of 1995, Lopukhov had already paid most of the debt to Skorochkin for an enterprise valued at $1.2 million, but he still owed $388,000, which he had to return on 29 January 1995.

On 5 April 1995, Lipkin and his accomplices were arrested; during the searches in their homes, a large amount of explosives, two handguns and an automatic rifle were found.

[2] On 29 October 1998, by decision of the jury of the Moscow Regional Court, Lopukhov, Evseyev, Zorin and Moskalyov were acquitted and released from custody immediately.