[1] The first murder of the duo was committed when Belov's friend Shabanov requested that they kill the merchant Alexander Cheresimov.
[4] He waited until the victim reached a residential building on Dorozhnaya Street, whereupon he hit him at least two times with a wooden beam before stealing his bag containing a video camera, personal belongings and documents.
The next attack by Belov and Shabanov was carried out on the evening of 10 February on Vyborgskaya Street with the same motives and method, this time stealing 100 roubles and a mobile phone, but the victim miraculously survived.
The next attack occurred on 27 February near Cherepanovs' Passage, with Belov hitting the victim with a baseball bat, but she furiously resisted and forced him to flee.
Belov and Shabanov were not afraid of being caught: they drove to the crime scene by car, without fearing that someone could remember their number.
The first surviving victim gave a detailed description of the brigand, from which the investigative brigadiers found out it was the twice-before convicted felon Vladimir Belov.
[5] The Supreme Court of Russia upheld the verdict of Belov without changes, and he was sent to the "Black Berkut" colony in the Sverdlovsk Oblast.
Subsequently, in 2005, another trial took place, in which Belov and Shabanov were found guilty of as many as 10 attacks, one of which, committed on October 16, 2001, ended in murder.
He would later plead guilty and receive an additional 19 years imprisonment to be served concurrently with his already-existing life term.