They recruit me. What to do?

14 Rules from the Human Rights Group "Agora"

On January 28, Olga Bulaeva, an office manager of the corruption Fund, told how law enforcement officers tried to recruited it. They by force brought her into the utility room of the metro, took the phone and offered to cooperate, promising to help with money and treatment of a sick mother. Medusa publishes 14 rules on how to behave if you are trying to recruit the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB, they were compiled by lawyers of the Agora human rights group.

What is a recruitment?

The legislation does not define this word. This is slang. Recruitment - declining a person to secret cooperation with law enforcement agencies. In open sources in Articles 17 and 18 of the Federal Law “ On Operational and Writing Activities ” (ARD), it is said that there are “individuals” who “can, with their consent, are involved in the preparation or conduct of operational-search measures, while maintaining confidentiality to the bodies engaged in operational-search activities, including under the contract”.

In Russia, seven operational departments specified in Article 13 of the Law on the ARD can legally recruit. These are the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB, the FSO, the Customs, the FSIN, the SVR and the GRU of the Ministry of Defense. For everyone, except for the police and state security, the areas of authority are very limited. In practice, for civilian activists, the main risk of declination to cooperation comes from them. At the same time, not only employees of the bodies, but also agents - those who previously agreed to cooperate can include in reality.

The Law on the ARD states that it is impossible to recruit lawyers, deputies, judges, prosecutors, priests, minors, legally incompetent. In practice, they do not sign a contract with such people, but they still collect information from them.

The declension of people to cooperate, as well as the orders governing this activity, belong to state secrets. If people who have access to such information disclose it - this is a crime.

What are the recruitment methods?

You can conditionally distinguish four main ways:

• Positive . The promise of a salary with official registration (conclusion of a contract), a promise of career growth or some other help. For example, employees who recruited Olga Bulaeva learned in advance that her mother was sick, and offered to help.
• The ideological. It is used in situations where a person himself is ready to cooperate. For example, angry on the one to whom he is offered to convey, conflict with this person, was disappointed in beliefs.
• Negative. It is used in situations when there is compromising evidence on the recruitment object, the ability to exert pressure. For example, they can be threatened with a criminal case or troubles at work or at the institute. For example, the student Artyom Yakovlev was threatened that he could not defend his diploma and go to the army.
• The method of physical coercion. With the help of violence, they force to sign papers about voluntary unspoken cooperation, after which these documents are used as a pressure tool.

How to behave?

1. Give me a clearly understand that you do not want to cooperate

All questions must be answered "no." In no case do not promise anything. It is better to immediately refuse than to promise and not to do. In an extreme case, if the situation is heated, they are pressure pressure or, for example, threaten to throw drugs, you can ask for a short time to think in order to make a decision. After that, it is necessary to write an application to the Investigative Committee or to the FSB and, using a lawyer, send requests whether operational-search activities are carried out against you. If you do not know which units work against you, it is worth sending requests to the police and to the FSB. In the complaint to the prosecutor’s office, it is necessary to describe all the circumstances of what happened to you; Explain that they tried to blackmail you by inclusive to unlawful activities to collect personal and other information about honest and conscientious citizens.

2. Try not to give a mobile phone just like that

If you want to select a phone from you, demand that the employees draw up all the necessary documents in the framework of administrative or criminal proceedings. If you work with people who can be interesting to organs, it is better to always have two phones with you and, in extreme cases, give only one. As a rule, there is always time to make a call. You need to encrypt the file system on the phone in advance, protect it with reliable password and not use authorization on the face or fingerprint.

3. Download the rights

Personally find out why you were detained. Demand a lawyer. Remind the employees what liability is provided for the excess of official powers and the illegal restriction of freedom .

4. Do not lose your self -control

You can ask the same questions many times. Remind you that you have already answered. The main thing is to communicate politely and correctly: without threats and insults. Do not tune the employees against yourself, do not give you a reason to hold you accountable for insulting a representative of the authorities or disobedience to his legal requirements . The emotions of an employee who recruiting (anger, irritation, sympathy) is a carefully prepared “performance”. It is needed in order to get you out of a state of balance and persuade you to cooperation. It is important to remember this and relate to everything that happens as a theatrical performance. This will help maintain self -control.

5. Do not try to argue with the employee about politics

Do not go into disputes and reasoning, try to recruit the operational employee yourself (they say, you, police officers or FSB officers, support the “bloody regime”, but could fight for justice). The conversation is probably recorded - if you do not immediately say to the article, then in any case, convince the operative that you are “ideological” and you need to be more attentive to you. After that, they may not be recruited, but to develop you. Your goal is simple: the employee must understand that he will not receive anything from you. Remember that cooperation with bodies can be carried out only by your agreement (Article 17 of the Law on the ARD).

6. In no case do not come to the meeting "out of curiosity"

If you are called “for a conversation”, remember: there is no such procedural action as “conversation”. “Give the agenda, I will come with a lawyer” - your answer should be like that. The right of operational employees to conduct a survey does not imply your duty to agree to such a survey. There is no responsibility for refusing a survey. Of course, there are nuances. If you know for sure that you have not committed any illegal actions on ordinary life and the Internet, or want to find out the circumstances related to operational interest, you can come to the operational employee to understand, in connection with which they cause. Such a conversation can be useful - you can evaluate the threat. The meeting may be associated with tracking your activities on the Internet and the people you communicate with. In any case, before going to the meeting, be sure to agree with a lawyer who will control the entire process and, if necessary, will quickly connect, for example, in case of provocation.

7. If you are a civil activist, never communicate with the bodies without a lawyer

Remember this rule. It is better to have a lawyer’s contact in advance, to conclude an agreement with him for subscriber services so that his phone is on a quick set. In an emergency, you will have no time to google a reliable lawyer. If you have an agreement with a personal lawyer, it will be easier for you to demand a meeting with him in a conversation with law enforcement officials. The phrase "personal lawyer" acts on employees soberingly.

8. Don't sign anything

Regardless of the recruitment method, the only point that should be avoided is the signing of any documents that operational employees provide you. As a rule, this is a paper on cooperation with the operational units of the police, the FSB, and other services. If you put a signature even on an empty sheet, then you can enter your data there, assign a pseudonym, and now you are allegedly ready to carry out activities related to intelligence work or the provision of certain data that interests the authorities. The only case when you can sign some documents is that it is quite obvious that you are going to detain you in a criminal case, and you need to win the time to leave for another region or from the country, while lawyers will understand your issue.

9. If you were forced to give consent to cooperation, stop it immediately

Remember: recruitment, intelligence work is a secret or top secret information, so you need to stop cooperation immediately after you were forced to sign any papers or forced to give consent. If you want to refuse after some time, you may be held accountable for disclosing data on cooperation with state security authorities or with the operational units of the police. From the moment of signing the consent of cooperation on a person, criminal liability is subject to disclosure of state secrets.

10. Do not believe the employees - their words and promises are worth nothing

It is important to understand - those who are trying to recruit you pursue their official goals. They are not friends for you. Do not seduce about your value and decency of employees. You can communicate very politely with you, but when you stop being benefited or employees urgently need a “stick”, “disclosure”, “indicator”, you can be “drained”. From the moment of detention with you, they can conduct an operational game, present documents drawn up on the knee to scare you and persuade you to cooperate. It is necessary to thoroughly study these documents, remember the names of the people who could make them, the titles, circumstances that may be indicated there.

11. Share everything that happens on social networks

If the operatives try to take aiming, fabricate the case, throw something, it will be obvious what happened. Suppose you were threatened to throw drugs for refusing to cooperate. If you talk about this publicly, publicity can protect you. If the unlawful actions have already been committed (for example, drugs are thrown), you need to achieve fixation of circumstances in the documents - in the protocol of seizure (personal search) in the presence of witnesses. You must explain that you have thrown forbidden items, and tell you about an attempt to recruit. And not only to explain, but also to make sure that your explanations are listed in the protocol. Otherwise, these facts will be “invisible” to the judicial and law enforcement system. When giving explanations in the presence of witnesses, pay attention to the fact that the employees had all the opportunity to throw you prohibited objects (handcuffs are applied to you, you are held and limited to movement, etc.).

12. Do not panic because of "compromising evidence"

If any “compromising information” is presented about you, you cannot panic and show your concern to the law enforcement officer. You must make it clear that you are indifferent to the possible disclosure of this information. In this case, you must really be prepared for the fact that this information will become public. Moreover, it is worth evaluating the situation and, possibly, subsequently to make this information public, thereby depriving employees of the “trump cards”.

13. Do not try to "lead your game"

You can’t conduct an operational game for your part, providing law enforcement agencies that are beneficial to you and people who are of operational interest. As a result, you may be set up and form a criminal case on the prevention of the legal activities of operational units, the provision of false information in order to mislead.

14. If you are forced to something illegal, write complaints

If you are forced to clearly illegally, for example, organizing any actions with violence, you can also contact the Office of your own security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the FSB, tell you that they are trying to recruit you to commit illegal actions. In this case, you can cooperate with law enforcement agencies in the official order - in order to disclose the crime of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB.