The administrator of the “Police Ombudsman” left the pre-trial detention center

The administrator of the “Police Ombudsman” public page, Igor Khudyakov, accused of distributing pornography, was released from a pre-trial detention center. His lawyer from OVD-Info, Maxim Pashkov, reported this on his Telegram channel.

Previously, the investigation canceled the preventive measure against Khudyakov “due to a change in the scope of the charges.” No other preventive measure has yet been chosen for Khudyakov.

16:46 At the exit from pre-trial detention center-4, Igor Khudyakov was met by the Investigative Committee officers and taken to interrogation, which lasted about two hours. This was reported by the Avtozak LIVE telegram channel.

As reported, Khudyakov is still with the investigator, but they managed to contact him and, according to him, he will soon be released.

17:01 Khudyakov was informed of the release order, Maxim Pashkov reported in his Telegram channel. “Khudyakov is fine,” the lawyer wrote.

• On May 25, 2020, the Tverskoy District Court sent Khudyakov to a pre-trial detention center as part of a case on the production and trafficking of pornography. Two days earlier, Khudyakov’s place in Vologda was searched. After investigative actions, the security forces announced that they planned to take Khudyakov to Moscow. For about a day there was no information about Khudyakov’s whereabouts. On the afternoon of May 24, 2020, members of the Public Monitoring Committee found him in the temporary detention center at Petrovka 38. The police did not allow lawyer Maxim Pashkov into the detention center to see his client.
• “Police Ombudsman” was originally a group on VKontakte , which was created by Vladimir Vorontsov when he was still serving in the police and Center “E”; then similar channels and pages appeared in other social networks and instant messengers. The main topic of the publications of the “Police Ombudsman” is the violation of the rights of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as criticism of the work of the department and its individual leaders. One of the latest high-profile publications of the “Police Ombudsman” was a recording of the voice of Elena Ustinova, allegedly the head of the city department of internal affairs of Novosibirsk, who gives orders “total” to draw up protocols on violation of self-isolation and work “until there are 10 protocols from each district,” while she refers to the order with reference to the resolution of the head of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for the Novosibirsk Region, Yuri Sterlikov. The “Police Ombudsman” encouraged people to write complaints and demand an internal audit. A few days later, Sterlikov resigned, and Ustinova was fired “for negative reasons.”