Administrator of the “Police Ombudsman” public page Khudyakov pleaded guilty to distributing pornography

In Moscow, the administrator of the “Police Ombudsman” public page, Igor Khudyakov, pleaded guilty to distributing pornography after mitigating the charge, reports , citing lawyer Maxim Pashkov. Interfax

“After the charge was softened from Part 3 of Article 242 of the Criminal Code (distribution of pornography by a group of persons using the Internet) to Part 1 of Article 242 of the Criminal Code (distribution of pornography), my client admitted guilt of sending photos in one of the chats,” Pashkov said.

The day before, Khudyakov was released from the pre-trial detention center due to a “change in the scope of the charges,” Pashkov said.

The lawyer clarified to TASS that his client did not testify against the founder of the human rights project “Police Ombudsman” Vladimir Vorontsov. Pashkov added that the statute of limitations on his charges expires in a month.

In May, former FSIN employee Khudyakov was transported from Vologda to Moscow and sent to a pre-trial detention center on a pornography case. Khudyakov’s accomplice Vorontsov became . According to investigators, activists published photographs of an unnamed woman on social networks, and she wrote a statement about them.

Vorontsov has also been in a pre-trial detention center since May on charges of extortion (Part 2 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code). against him In total, seven criminal cases were opened , but charges were brought against only one of them.

Updated at 11:42 p.m. The news was supplemented by Pashkov's commentary to TASS.