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“Present time”: Yaroslavl investigator specialized in refusals of allegations of torture
When Radion Svirsky worked in the investigative department for the Zavolzhsky district of Yaroslavl, his superiors instructed him to check all reports of torture and look for a reason to open a case of false denunciation (Article 306 of the Criminal Code) against the complainants. Current Time about this . told A source close to the investigative department
During the verification of allegations of torture, Svirsky did not watch the video of the beatings of prisoners, the publication’s interlocutor noted. “In response to Radik’s request to identify the employees who participated in the beating of prisoners, the answer was given that there were no beatings, since there are no records from the employees’ registers confirming this,” the source said.
against Svirsky A case has been opened for exceeding official powers (Article 286 of the Criminal Code), but charges have not yet been brought against him. Now Svirsky, according to Current Time, serves in the military investigation department of the Investigative Committee. However, they told the channel’s journalists: “We don’t have such a fighter.”
After the video published by Novaya Gazeta, the Investigative Committee opened a case of abuse of power (clause “a” of Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code). 17 FSIN employees were suspended from work, seven of them were arrested , and another was sent under house arrest.
Deputy Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service Valery Maksimenko apologized to Yevgeny Makarov, who was tortured in the colony. The head of the service, Gennady Kornienko, in turn, promised to publish statistics on the use of violence against prisoners, and also proposed creating new video recorders for FSIN employees that would be impossible to turn off.
Corrected at 5:55 p.m. The news claimed that Svirsky did not see the recording of the torture of Yevgeny Makarov. In fact, Present Tense's source did not speak specifically about this footage. We apologize to the readers.