Yevhenii Balan was sentenced to life imprisonment in Ukraine in September 2013 for a series of nine murders in Fastiv district, Kyiv Oblast, committed between 2006 and 2011. Women and girls were among those he killed. His name is spelled Yevhenii or Yevgeny Balan in Latin script, Євгеній Балан in Ukrainian and Евгений Балан in Russian.
Balan was born in 1967 in Boyarka, Kyiv Oblast, and was 44 when he was detained in 2011. He had been convicted before; the date and nature of that earlier conviction are not on record. By the time of his trial he was 46, unmarried and living in Fastiv with a partner. Nothing is on record about his family, schooling or childhood.
Police in Fastiv detained Balan around September 22 and 23, 2011, and a Fastiv court then ordered him held in custody. The Interior Ministry said he confessed. At that stage he was suspected in a small number of killings in 2010, among them the death of a local man after a personal dispute. By the time the case reached court, prosecutors counted nine murders over five years.
The case was tried at the Fastiv city district court. The offense as the court qualified it was premeditated murder with particular cruelty, with other charges. Balan admitted his guilt in full, and prosecutors said he showed no remorse. The victims' names and the dates of the individual deaths are not on record.
The court sentenced Balan to life imprisonment, the most severe penalty in Ukrainian law, in a verdict announced by the Kyiv Oblast Prosecutor's Office on September 13, 2013. The date of the hearing itself is not on record.
Whether Balan appealed, and whether a higher court ruled on the case, is not on record. His present status is not on record either.
The number of killings first suspected in 2011 was smaller than the nine for which he was convicted in 2013. The name of the presiding judge and the full list of counts are not on record.
1967: Yevhenii Balan is born in Boyarka, Kyiv Oblast.
2006 to 2011: nine murders in Fastiv district.
September 22 to 23, 2011: Balan is detained in Fastiv; a court orders him held in custody; he confesses.
September 13, 2013: the Fastiv city district court sentences him to life imprisonment.