The chairman of the committee of soldiers' mothers in the Stavropol Territory "Mothers of the Prikumye", 73-year-old Lyudmila Bogatenkova, who was investigating the death of Russian soldiers, is in the hospital. It is reported by Interfax with reference to the lawyer Andrey Sabinin. “Bogatenkova was hospitalized in the cardiology department of the Budyonovsky city hospital, examination and treatment have begun,” Interfax quoted the lawyer as saying.
Bogatenkova was charged under Part 3 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (large-scale fraud). According to the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Stavropol Territory, “Bogatenkova L.V. during the period from November 2011 to June 2012, misleading citizen D. and deceiving him about the possibility of her providing qualified legal assistance in protecting the legitimate interests of his son, as well as promising to resolve the issue of reclassifying the crime he committed and releasing him into further from criminal liability, fraudulently took possession of the funds belonging to him in the total amount of 800,000 rubles. At the same time, the prosecutor's office said that “Bogatenkova L.V. She was repeatedly convicted of similar mercenary crimes, however, previous convictions have been cancelled.” It is also said that “at present, the investigating authorities are conducting procedural checks on the applications of citizens about the commission of Bogatenkova L.V. other similar crimes related to fraud.
On October 17, Bogatenkova was detained in Budyonnovsk after a search of the office of the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers. On the evening of October 18, she was transferred to the Pyatigorsk pre-trial detention center "White Swan", where she was not accepted for health reasons. The human rights activist spent two nights in a detention center at the police station in Budyonnovsk, after which on October 19 she was released on bail.
On August 27, Lyudmila Bogatenkova stated that territory contract servicemen of the 18th motorized rifle brigade declared dead in the Rostov region, information on which was requested from investigators by members of the Russian Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC) Sergey Krivenko and Ella Polyakova, fought on the of Ukraine .