A criminal case for the kidnapping of a girl was opened against MK editor-in-chief Pavel Gusev

In Ukraine, the editor-in-chief of the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper Pavel Gusev is suspected of kidnapping, reports Voice of Tavria .

The case was opened against a group of people, including Pavel Gusev. Ukrainian law enforcement officers suspect the editor-in-chief of "MK" of kidnapping and illegally imprisoning a resident of Crimea.

According to investigators, in March 2013, a group of people forcibly took Natalya Shugalskaya, a resident of Simferopol, from the territory of Ukraine to Moscow, where she was forced into prostitution. According to Shugalskaya, the pimps obeyed a man whom they called “Pavel Nikolaevich from the newspaper” in telephone conversations, and Gusev among themselves. Gusev allegedly systematically received money from pimps and also placed advertisements in his publication for the provision of intimate services.

Shugalskaya managed to escape from the brothel and get to Simferopol. Already in Crimea, the girl recognized Gusev from a photo on the Internet.

Pavel Gusev was summoned for questioning to the investigative department of the Kyiv district police department of Simferopol on June 10 at 10:30.

In Russia, Pavel Gusev became a widely discussed media figure after the article “Political prostitution changes gender” was published in Moskovsky Komsomolets in mid-March, which talked about three United Russia deputies - Ekaterina Lakhova, Irina Yarovaya and Olga Batalina. The State Duma called on the editor-in-chief to apologize for the article, but Gusev said in an interview with PublicPost that he saw no reason for an apology.

After this, State Duma deputies made several attacks on MK: they asked the prosecutor's office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to look into advertisements about intimate services in the publication, asked law enforcement agencies to check the newspaper for taxes , and also called on the Moscow mayor's office to deprive " Moskovsky Komsomolets" premises .