The head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow Region, Alexander Shestun, is being transferred to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center

The head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, Alexander Shestun, who is suspected of abuse of power, is being transferred from pre-trial detention center No. 5 "Vodniki" to pre-trial detention center No. 2 "Lefortovo". about this Writes "Znak.com" with reference to Shestun's press secretary Vlad Rusina.

Rusina suggests that this is how Shestun "is trying by all means to prevent Shestun from participating in the election of the head of the district." According to her, on July 18, a lawyer and a notary came to the Vodniki pre-trial detention center to certify powers of attorney, and a close associate of Shestun would submit documents to participate in the elections for him. But, as Rusina says, they are not allowed to see the arrested person, and the head of the pre-trial detention center, Denis Popusha, said that the head of the district was already being transferred to Lefortovo today. The woman believes that the transfer is also aimed at ensuring that lawyers have fewer opportunities to meet with the client.

“If Shestun is transferred to Lefortovo today, then the lawyer, according to him, will not get to him earlier than in a week, so Shestun simply will not have time to register as a candidate,” the spokesman says.

• Prior to his arrest, the head of the Serpukhov district announced threats of a criminal case because of the approval of a rally against garbage dumps. He said that he was threatened by the governor of the Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov.
• At the end of May, were two deputies of Alexander Shestun searched. The interlocutor of Radio Liberty said that during the search one of them was told that she would “sit together with Shestun in the same cell.”
• to Shestun On June 13, they came with a search, and then detained him in the case of abuse of power. His press secretary reported that about 40 masked people with machine guns entered Shestun's house, where there were minor children. Two days after the arrest, the Basmanny District Court arrested Shestun until 13 August.
• At a meeting to appeal against the arrest, the man spoke about the threats from the FSB officer Ivan Tkachev and the head of the presidential department for domestic policy Andrei Yarin. “If you go to the polls, we will imprison you; if you fight against landfills, we will imprison you,” conveyed the essence of the threats. Shestun