Two defendants in the Network case detained

Two defendants in the case of the Network organization, Mikhail Kulkov and Maxim Ivankin, were detained and arrested. This became known from Elena Bogatova, the mother of Ilya Shakursky, a defendant in the same case.

OVD-InfoLeninsky District Court in Penza arrested Kulkov and Ivankin until September.

Bogatova was waiting at the pre-trial detention center for a lawyer when Ivankin and Kulkov were brought to the building. According to her information, their parents became aware of the arrest on July 4, and on July 5 at 14:00 the trial took place.

Alexey Kulkov, Mikhail’s father, said that the young people were detained in Moscow; they did not have documents with them. The Leninsky District Court of Penza arrested them until September 18. reported that his son and Maxim Ivankin are accused of organizing a terrorist community. Alexey Kulkov reported that he saw his son and Ivankin at the trial for several minutes while they were being led down the corridor. He noticed bruises and abrasions on them.

UPD 21:00 OVD-InfoKulkov Sr. - Prior to this, Ivankin and Kulkov were detained in Penza in March 2017 along with anti-fascist Alexei Poltavets. They were initially accused of drug possession. According to Poltavets, after their arrest they were tortured and beaten, demanding to testify against their friends from the anti-fascist environment. Poltavets later left Russia and has not seen Ivankin or Kulkov since then. words - In June 2018, it became known that the case of Ivankin and Kulkov was related to the case of the Network organization, which the investigation considers terrorist. A case has been opened against Ivankin and Kulkov for preparing for the production or sale of drugs on a large scale (clause “d” of Part 4 of Article 228.1 of the Criminal Code with the application of Part 3 of Article 30 of the Criminal Code). added - Ivankin, Kulkov and Poltavets appear in the criminal case materials under their own names or under pseudonyms - “Ryzhy”, “Ilya” and “Boris”. - On July 4, it became known that another defendant in the “Network” case, Dmitry Pchelintsev, from pre-trial detention center No. 1 of Penza, is allegedly in . transferred to St. Petersburg - on May 23, Victoria Frolova, a friend of those accused in the Network case, was detained at the border. She was forced to testify against her Penza acquaintances, including Ivankin and Kulkov. In the testimony she signed, Ivankin and Kulkov are named as members of the “5.11” cell of the “Network” organization. According to the prosecution, all members of the Network conducted training with sticks in the forest, training in terrain orientation, first aid, and learned how to set traps. Russian-Ukrainian - In the fall of 2017, five people were arrested in Penza: Zorin, Shakursky, Pchelintsev, Kuksov and Chernov. Sagynbaev was detained and taken to Penza. Everyone involved in the terrorist community. According to the FSB, the young people participated in a terrorist organization called “Network,” which allegedly has cells in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Penza and Belarus. The defendants in the case spoke about psychological pressure, electric shock torture, “hanging upside down” and weapons that FSB officers planted on them. St. Petersburg was accused - Later, some of the accused from confessions, that they gave them under torture. refused to report - In addition to the six accused who are being held in Penza, three more people are being held in custody in St. Petersburg in the case of involvement in the Network. These are Viktor Filinkov and Igor Shishkin, whose human rights activists show traces of torture, as well as Yuli Boyarshinov, who was initially accused of illegal possession of explosives, but then began to be demanded to testify against the defendants in the “Network” case and he was charged with the same. found presented