The founder of the Gulagu.net project, Vladimir Osechkin, was arrested in absentia in a fraud case

The Golovinsky District Court of Moscow arrested Vladimir Osechkin, the founder of the Gulagu.net project, in absentia for two months. Osechkin announced this on Facebook.

contains The case file part 2 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code - fraud committed by a group of persons or with significant damage.

According to Mash , Osechkin is suspected of selling insurance policies to relatives of prisoners. Insurance was allegedly sold from 2015 to 2019 through the offices of insurance companies in Moscow. “Half of these offices have already had their licenses revoked,” Mash says.

In the case, according to the publication, 19 victims, the damage is estimated at one and a half million rubles.

“Osechkin is called the head of the group, and the insurer Mikhail Shneiderman is his assistant,” writes Mash, specifying that Shneiderman died at the end of 2019.

• According to Osechkin, the goal of the criminal prosecution is "the destruction of the human rights project Gulagu.net." According to him, he learned about the arrest in absentia by accident: “No investigators and judges informed me of anything, did not notify me, and did not even try to contact me.”
• Vladimir Osechkin left Russia in 2015 after being searched in another fraud case (the search also took place at the home of lawyer Denis Soldatov, who collaborated with Gulagu.net). In 2016, Osechkin was notified that his involvement in the case had not been proven, specifies . Mediazona
• Gulagu.net has repeatedly talked about torture in Russian colonies. In particular, Osechkin was one of the sources of information about the riot in IK-15 in Angarsk in May 2020.