The family of Raoul Wallenberg through the court demanded from the FSB documents about his fate

Relatives of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who is believed to have died in Soviet custody in 1947, filed a lawsuit against the FSB demanding complete and uncensored documents on his case. It is reported by the Associated Press.

“Numerous inquiries to the Russian authorities made publicly and privately over the years by me, historians and Swedish officials have yielded no results,” said Wallenberg’s niece Marie Dupuy.

The lawsuit was filed with the Meshchansky Court of Moscow, lawyer Ivan Pavlov from the Team 29 association, which represents the interests of Dupuis in Russia, told Interfax.

“This case is not only an opportunity to restore the memory of an outstanding person, but also a strong argument in the struggle to open the archives of the FSB and other departments,” he said.

• Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg since 1944 was the secretary of the Swedish diplomatic mission in Budapest. He issued Swedish passports to local Jews, preventing their deportation to Germany. Its activities have affected, according to official Russian estimates, at least 20,000 people.
• After the entry of Soviet troops into Budapest, Wallenberg was arrested. Until 1947, he was kept in the state security prison in Lubyanka. According to the conclusions published in 2000 by the Russian part of the working group to clarify the fate of Raoul Wallenberg, he "died or, most likely, died on July 17, 1947."
• According to the working group, in the correspondence between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Vyacheslav Molotov and his deputy Andrei Vyshinsky, the question of the "liquidation" of Wallenberg was raised due to the fact that his case "continues to remain without progress." It was proposed to entrust the solution of this issue to the Minister of State Security Viktor Abakumov.
• At first, the USSR denied that Wallenberg had been arrested and was in the country; it was claimed that he died in Budapest. In 1954, it was announced that the diplomat had died of a myocardial infarction in the Lubyanka prison.
• Relatives of Raoul Wallenberg are seeking documents from the Russian authorities about his fate. We are talking, in particular, about the materials of his interrogations at Lubyanka and about the protocols of interrogations of Viktor Abakumov, whose direct role in the murder of a diplomat is discussed in the diaries of the first head of the KGB, Ivan Serov, published in 2016 (“Medusa” wrote about the book and its shortcomings ).
• In October 2016, the Swedish authorities officially declared Raoul Wallenberg dead. Prior to that, he was listed as missing.