

The leading role among the participants was taken by Pavel Voitov: he distributed roles, made decisions and actively led the activities of the gang. The motives for the killings was the desire to "clean the city", and "hatred of alcoholics and homeless people". According to the investigators, they wanted to "oppose themselves to others and show their superiority". The young people met in far-right groups on the social media website VKontakte. Vladislav Karataev was sentenced to 16 years, and Artur Narcissov to 9 years and 6 months, which were to be served in a corrective labor colony. On October 23, 2017, the Moscow City Court sentenced Pavel Voitov to life imprisonment, Elena Lobacheva to 13 years' imprisonment and Maxim Pavlov to 9 years and 6 months' imprisonment in a penal colony. They called themselves Sanitater-88 (88 meaning HH in the alphabet, short for "Heil Hitler") or "The Cleaners" ( Russian: Чистильщики, romanized: Chistilshchiki).

Many attacks were filmed and posted on the darknet and on the VK page "OBO16". Their victims of choice were mainly homeless and alcoholics. Between 20, they killed more than 15 people in Moscow, the Moscow Oblast and the Yaroslavl Oblast. Pavel Voitov, Elena Lobacheva, Artur "Narcis" Narcissov, Maxim "Zakirka" Pavlov and Vladislav "Persik" Karataev were a gang of Russian serial killers and neo-Nazis.
