How the FSIN returned the money

When the electronic GUFSIN started working, many of you, those who are far from their husbands or wives behind bars, probably rejoiced. Sometimes, by the way, this is the only way to find out which institution a person is in. I sent the parcel through the FSIN online store and received a delivery report. But it's not that simple...

At the beginning of September 2012, our client Pavel Novikov was urgently transferred from Kazakhstan to Russia (you can read about this scandalous story here: http://www.specletter.com/pravosudie/2012-09-06/smertonosnyi-etap.html). It was planned to take him to Krasnoyarsk, where he was to serve his sentence. From reliable sources we learned that he is in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Omsk. But when we called there, they refused to provide us with information. But we still took a risk, thinking that if he was definitely there, then the package would not come back, it would be handed to him. Since he was torn from Kazakhstan “urgently,” he did not have time to take anything with him. It was decided to send him some food and at least some stationery. Fortunately, an online store is actively advertised on the website of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Omsk Region. When the order for food and necessary things was placed, for some reason I was plagued by doubts about whether everything would arrive.

So, the order was accepted, an hour later it was returned - they say, the price of tea does not match, you don’t have 8 rubles in your account. I topped up my account and repeated the order. By evening, the delivery status arrived: “The addressee has received the parcel.” We were happy like children. Firstly, they found out that Pavel is indeed in the Omsk pre-trial detention center. Secondly, he’s definitely not hungry, and now he can write a letter. However, two days later I found out that Pavel was no longer in Omsk, but in Krasnoyarsk pre-trial detention center-1. On the day when I sent the parcel, he was no longer in Omsk!

Realizing that this situation with the electronic GUFSIN could turn into an attempt at fraud, I wrote a statement to the RF Investigative Committee for the Omsk Region, to the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia and to the Regional Prosecutor's Office of Omsk. She asked to understand the situation and bring the perpetrators to criminal liability under Articles 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud), 286 (abuse of official authority), and 158 (secret theft of someone else’s property). We sorted it out for more than a month. There was no answer, but yesterday it came:

"Your appeal has been reviewed by the management of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Omsk Region. There have been no violations of the legislation regulating the procedure for transferring funds from convicts by employees of PKU SIZO-1 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Omsk Region. According to the reporting documents of the accounting department, on September 24, 2012, based on your application No. 28727 via the Internet - an order to the personal account of the convicted Novikov P.V. for payment at the kiosk for 12 items of goods received funds in the amount of 551.70 rubles, which were transferred by payment order No. 3335 dated October 11, 2012 at the place of departure of the convicted person to the FKU SIZO-1 of Krasnoyarsk ".

Pavel also confirmed that last week this money was transferred to his personal account. What a coincidence: two months later and when the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor’s Office already had my statement...

But this does not solve the question. What would have happened if I had not written a statement about the fact that I was misled by withdrawing money from my account and writing in the delivery status “received by the addressee in person”?