Andrei Chernov, convicted in the Network case, was transferred to the Udmurt IK-5 in Sarapul. The RUPRESSION telegram channel reports this with reference to the regional POC .
Andrei Chernov arrived at the colony on November 26 and was placed in quarantine. RUPRESSION provides Chernov's postal address:
427 965, Udmurt Republic, Sarapul, st. Raskolnikova, 53a. FKU IK-5 Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Udmurt Republic. Chernov Andrey Sergeevich, born in 1989
Earlier it became known that the rest of the defendants in the Network case were also transferred from the Penza pre-trial detention center. During the investigation, Vasily Kuksov fell ill with tuberculosis and was sent to medical correctional institution No. 3 in the Nizhny Novgorod region. There is no information about where Arman Sagynbaev was taken. Shortly before his transfer, Sagynbaev’s lawyer reported that FSB officers tried to obtain testimony from his client in the pre-trial detention center about a non-existent terrorist cell in Moscow. A similar situation occurred with Maxim Ivankin.
- A criminal case against the “terrorist community “Network” was opened in October 2017. According to the FSB, 11 young people in Penza and St. Petersburg organized the terrorist community “Network” and were planning to overthrow the government.
- In February 2020, a court in Penza sentenced seven anti-fascists to prison terms ranging from 6 to 18 years. The appeal court upheld the conviction in October. Dmitry Pchelintsev received 18 years in a maximum security colony, and Ilya Shakursky received 16 years in a maximum security colony under the article on organizing the activities of a terrorist community (Part 1 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code). Three defendants were accused of participating in a terrorist community (Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code) and attempted drug sales: Andrei Chernov received 14 years in a maximum security colony, Maxim Ivankin - 13 years in a maximum security colony, Mikhail Kulkov - 10 years in a maximum security colony . Vasily Kuksov, who received 9 years in a general regime colony, was accused of participating in a terrorist community and illegal possession of weapons. Arman Sagynbaev received 6 years in a general regime colony under the article on participation in a terrorist community.
- The defendants in the case, including Shakursky, Pchelintsev, Chernov and Sagynbaev, alleged psychological pressure, electric shock, beatings and planted weapons. Some of them retracted the confessions they gave in the first days after the arrests. OVD-Info spoke in detail about each person involved in the case.