They came to Perm Memorial and the home of its chairman Robert Latypov to carry out searches.

The office of the Perm regional branch of Memorial and the home of the organization’s chairman, Robert Latypov, were searched on the morning of October 31. The head of the Agora association, Pavel Chikov, talks about this.

The lawyer from Agora who came to the search reports that the search warrant indicated incorrect addresses, and the investigative actions were stopped.

discovered Police officers were planning to conduct searches in a criminal case regarding illegal cutting of trees (Article 260 of the Criminal Code). This case was opened in August in connection with an expedition to the cemetery of those repressed in the abandoned village of Galyashor, Kudymkar district, Perm region. Memorial planned to improve the cemetery and install memorial signs.

Polish-Lithuanian The searches were resumed, presenting a new resolution with the correct addresses, MBH Media with reference to lawyer Alexei Shardakov.

12:14 reports “Currently, four employees of the Federal Security Service Directorate, two employees of the Center for Combating Extremism and Terrorism and an investigator from the city of Kudymkar are conducting a search. It raises big questions why FSB officers are present during an ordinary crime. They need to search saws and shovels, and confiscate all documents and electronic media. In fact, it is clear that FSB officers are in charge of everything, and not the investigator,” the publication quotes the lawyer as saying.

The search of Robert Latypov has been going on for about nine hours, the head of the Agora International Human Rights Group, Pavel Chikov, citing lawyer Alexei Shardakov. System units, documents, and a laptop were confiscated from Memorial’s office.

18:15 Alexey Sherdakov reports to MBKh Media that the search in the Memorial office has ended. The search at his home, apparently, has also ended. The security forces are also going to come to a private house, but when is unknown.

18:27 reported - Earlier in October, the Ministry of Forestry of the Perm Territory, the chairman of the Perm “Memorial” Robert Latypov, 50 thousand rubles and the society itself 200 thousand rubles for an expedition to the cemetery of Lithuanian and Polish repressed people. The fines were imposed under the article on unauthorized occupation of forest areas (Article 7.9 of the Administrative Code). fined - on August 10 and 11, police officers came to the expedition for interrogation, and a few days later two criminal cases. The expedition members were accused of illegal logging (Article 260 of the Criminal Code), and local resident Leonid Ladanov was accused of fictitious registration of foreign citizens (Article 322.2 of the Criminal Code). they came and excited