On December 27, 2007, Lt. Sergei Arakcheyev and Lt. Yevgeny Khudyakov were convicted by a Rostov-on-Don military court of the January 2003 of the killing of three local construction workers at a checkpoint in Chechnya and sentenced to 15 and 17 years in prison, respectively. According to court papers, Khudyakov and Arakcheyev forced the victims out of their truck, ordered them to lie on the ground and shot them dead; the bodies were doused in fuel and set on fire. Khudyakov failed to appear for the verdict and the court said police would search nationwide for him.
In 2007, Lt. Sergei Arakcheyev and Lt. Yevgeny Khudyakov were convicted of murdering three construction workers in Chechnya in January 2003. They were sentenced to 15 and 17 years in prison, respectively. The court found that they forced the victims out of their truck, ordered them to lie on the ground, and shot them dead before setting their bodies ablaze. Khudyakov failed to appear for the verdict, prompting a nationwide search by police.