Ivan Safronov was denied a telephone conversation with his mother due to the threat of “hidden exchange of information”

The investigator refused Ivan Safronov, a former Kommersant journalist accused of high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code), to have a telephone conversation with his mother, as he believes that he can be used to "perform intelligence assignments of a foreign special service." This was reported by MBKh Media with reference to lawyer Ivan Pavlov, who represents the interests of Safronov.

According to the lawyer, the resolution states that the conversation can be used "for covert exchange of information, to carry out other intelligence assignments of a foreign intelligence service directed against the security of the Russian Federation, and to counteract the investigation."

“We are talking about the plane of moral and ethical. Because not everything is regulated by law. Our investigator is an independent figure endowed with a special legal status. He did it because he could do it. The way he explains it - it says what is in a person's head. What are his ideals? How he was brought up. And here the point is what kind of environment he has and how it influenced him, ”said Ivan Pavlov.

• Ivan Safronov is a former journalist for Kommersant and Vedomosti, at the time of his arrest he was an adviser to the head of Roskosmos. The persecution of Safronov is associated with his journalistic activities, he covered the work of the military-industrial complex. Safronov was detained on July 7, 2020 by FSB officers as part of a treason case. On the same day, the court sent him to a pre-trial detention center. *