In parallel and investigating

The FSB connected to the investigation of attacks on opposition bloggers in St. Petersburg. This was reported by RBC with reference to certain sources "familiar with the materials of the investigation." The investigation will continue to conduct the police, while the FSB will secretly control the course of the case, and if necessary will help in operational support.

One of the sources of the publication explained the attention of the FSB to investigate its great significance.

On June 21, Fontanka.ru connected the attacks on bloggers with the "troll factory" and billionaire Evgeny Prigozhin , who is called personal restaurateur of Vladimir Putin. A few days later, the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov described the publication as "duck and slander."

Prigozhin did not comment on the situation to RBC reporters. Meanwhile, a certain source close to the billionaire said that the security forces show an “growing interest” to Prigozhin’s environment. He added that in one of the structures associated with the oligarch last week a search was expected, which, however, did not take place.

The case on the facts of attacks, initiated by the results of pre -investigation, is qualified under Article 115 of the Criminal Code (intentional infliction of mild harm to health), one of the sources of RBC said. Officially, the opening of the case was not reported.

Meanwhile, in the past few days the investigation has activated. As one of the victims told the publication - the administrator of the Criminal Power of the Criminal Power, Alexander Markov, - last week he was called to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Petrograd district to testify in addition to the explanations that he gave to the police after the incident. In the spring, the check on the statement of Markov was stopped - now the police told the blogger that the investigation was resumed. They did not explain to him the reasons for this.

RBC also notes that the FSB is engaged in another case related to Prigogine. At the end of May, the police and operatives of the FSB economic security service stopped the oligarch motorcade. As reported, the Prigozhin guard was brought up under Article 318 of the Criminal Code (the application of violence to a representative of the authorities).

As stated in the mentioned publication of Fontanka.ru, several journalists of this publication established surveillance. In addition, employees received letters from the user with the nickname Kriv Vetka, who tried to find out the personal data of the journalist Denis Korotkov. KRIV Vetka wrote his messages from the IP address registered with the Glavset company. "This is the newly educated legal entity of the famous" troll factory ", which is based in the 55 business center on Savushkina," said Fontanka.ru.

The publication also indicated the connection of the "troll factory" with the Whiswho.me portal, where the data of bloggers were published, on which attacked were later made. “As a contact mail during registration, an email address was left, which, supposedly, belonged to an employee of the“ Factory ”Nikita Podgorny,” the Internet newspaper explained.

In addition, the publication reported that the work of the "troll factory" is financing Prigozhin. It was also noted that after the exit on June 9, the articles of Korotkov on the connections of the security service of the oligarch with the PMC Wagner, noticed in Syria, the newspaper’s website was subjected to DDOS-Atak.

The relationship of attacks on bloggers with publications on Whoiswho.mewas announced at the end of May State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov . In particular, he mentioned the case of the city dweller Yulia Chernobodova - at first threats came to her, and then the unknown people burned her husband's car. On June 2, the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Nevsky District of St. Petersburg initiated the case of threats under part 1 of Article 119 of the Criminal Code (threat of murder or causing serious harm to health). The suspects and accused were not reported.

As follows from the publication of Fontanka, in total at least seven attacks were committed against the defendants of the Whiswho.me list. In particular, on February 9, civil activist Danil Alexandrov was attacked . His nose was broken.

On March 31, Markov was beaten, and on June 10, they attacked another public administrator "Criminal Power" - Yegor Alekseev. The blogger received a fracture of the nose and a concussion; He was also damaged by his jaw. After the attack, the blogger left Russia.

On June 11, Denis Samsonov, an employee of Vkontakte , was beaten by a beating. Two unknown people attacked him with shouts: "National Representative, Jew, the Fifth Column." Samsonov broke three fingers on his hand.