The Krasnodar scientist is in custody of fraud charges. There are doubts about the validity of these accusations
of the Krasnodar scientist and an employee of the Southern Regional Resource Center NPO Mikhail Savva, the accused of the Federal Security Service of the Krasnodar Territory of Fraud, through his lawyers, handed over to those who support him, and asked on November 5, on the day when the court session began, to come to the Pervomaisky Court of Krasnodar. “Unfortunately, there is no independent justice in Russia, so everything will depend on the activity of the public campaign,” Savva wrote. Professors of political science, an expert on the activities of NPOs were detained in April this year and accused of fraud in the distribution of the Grant of the “Building World” program. Savva's supporters believe that the case against him was falsified, since he collected information about numerous violations with which the Cuban NGO checks were conducted in the spring, and was going to publish it at a special meeting of the Council under the President of Human Rights.
For almost half a year, Doctor of Political Sciences, professor of Krasnodar University Mikhail Savva is in pre -trial detention center No. 5 of Krasnodar. According to the UFSB in the Krasnodar Territory, the scientist and employee of the Southern Regional Resource Center NPO, as well as the director of the Pilot marketing agency,
Victoria Remmler, is accused of the 3rd part of the 159th article of the CG of the Russian Federation-“Fraud for receiving payments”. According to investigators, Savva and Remmler, which is under the subscription about the lower room, stole budget funds allocated by the administration of the Krasnodar Territory in the form of a grant.
According to investigators, in August 2012, Mikhail Savva developed a program "Building a world" to receive a grant related to the adaptation of migrants in the Krasnodar Territory. The total amount of subsidies is 820 thousand rubles, 366 thousand were intended to study the socialization of migrants. The study was to conduct the Pilot agency. However, according to the investigation, Savva did not transfer this money to the “pilot” account, the study was not conducted, and the funds received on it were Mikhail Savva and Victoria Remmler.
The testimony against Savva was given by Victoria Remmler, as the Kuban media wrote, under the pressure of investigators. She does not communicate with journalists. The wife of Mikhail Savva
Elena Savva - associate professor of the Department of Political Science and Political Administration of the Kuban State University - claims that they also tried to press her husband, but he refused to admit his guilt:
If he does not cease to build a mixture of Don Quixote with Khodorkovsky, we will inflate it into the asphalt
- On the fifth day after the arrest of Mikhail, a man came to me, who said that he allegedly performs intermediary functions from the FSB. The first thing he demanded of me was to convince her husband to give conference. The second is to "stop driving a wave", that is, to do what I am doing with you now. Next, such an elegant phrase was transmitted: "If it does not cease to build a mixture of Don Quixote with Khodorkovsky, we will inflate it into the asphalt."
Lawyer of Mikhail Savva
Marina Dubrovina believes that the case is investigating in violations, and perplexes why her client is not released under the recognizance not to leave:
-There is no evidence that he had abducted anything
-There is no evidence that he had abducted anything. Firstly, he is not the manager of loans of organizations, he does not have the right to sign on financial documents. The funds of the grant, which was received by the organization "Southern Regional Resource Center", were transferred to the Pilot marketing agency. The pilot marketing agency conducted a study and reported for it. The administration of the Krasnodar Territory adopted a grant report without any comments. What is the fault of Mikhail Valentinovich and why do the investigation and prosecutor believe that he abducted them? At the preliminary investigation, I said: listen, you are accusing two people of embezzlement of 366 thousand, but the fault is not individualized, you don’t even say who ... because the amount of theft is a qualifying sign, this is a significant circumstance. But it is not established. The prosecutor's office believes that everything is fine and so you can consider the case.
Professors of the Krasnodar University of Mikhail Savva are supported by his students and graduate students. They created a special VKontakte group and actively cover all the news in the Savva case. According to student
Olga Zozuli, the leadership of the university tried to warn young people against the support of the professor, but unsuccessfully:
- At first, explanatory conversations were with us, but now they have stopped. In my opinion, this is a political matter. And not just like that he is in the FSB pre -trial detention center, in which special conditions of content. Access to human rights activists is closed to the insulator, they cannot chat with Mikhail Valentinovich.
He is a wonderful teacher, he is a famous scientist, expert, professor, and we will fight for him
There is a site in his support, there is a VKontakte group, students are actively going to meetings that have already been, and we will hold various promotions in its support.
In the pre-trial detention center, the expert of the All-Russian movement "For Human Rights" from St. Petersburg
Maria Ruzina did not get to Mikhail Savva. The management of the insulator could not formulate the reason for the refusal:
- The situation with Professor Savva causes great alarm to human rights activists. In connection with the latest information about falsifications and the reservation, this anxiety intensified even more
- Therefore, I would like to convey various information to Mikhail Valentinovich. Ask him questions: what specific help does he need? And get answers from him, learn about his state of health. In fact, this visit was very, very needed, especially on the eve of the court.
The court hearing in the case of Mikhail Savva will be held on November 5. The Krasnodar public organization "Southern Regional Resource Center", in which Mikhail Savva worked, has been operating since 1996. It is financed by the John and Katherine Makanturov Foundation. The website of the URRC says that the scope of his interests is the support and development of NPOs, charity, conflict prevention and the development of tolerance.