Penza investigators interrogated the authors of the “7x7” material about the “safe” apartment of those involved in the “Network” case

On March 3 and 4, Investigative Committee officers interrogated 7x7 journalists Ekaterina and Evgeny Malyshev as part of the investigation into the murder of Ekaterina Levchenko and Artem Dorofeev, acquaintances of the defendants in the case of the “terrorist community “Network””. this . reported The editors of “7x7”

In May 2020, the Malyshevs published material on 7x7 about an apartment in a five-story building on Chekhov Street, where, according to another acquaintance of the defendants in the Network case, Alexey Poltavets, theirs was located. Six months later, in November, the residents of the house were interviewed by investigators.

According to the journalists, during their interrogation the Investigative Committee officers were “most interested” in the article about the apartment. “The investigation is looking for traces in the house on Chekhov Street, where this strange story could have started <...> The investigators contacted us, we shared the information, we don’t feel sorry,” Malyshev wrote on Facebook.

In the spring of 2020, anti-fascist Poltavets, in a conversation with Meduza , claimed that Maxim Ivankin, convicted in the “Penza case,” met his girlfriend Ekaterina Levchenko in the forest of the Ryazan region, and he himself shot their friend Artem Dorofeev in the face with a sawn-off shotgun “Saiga” carbine, and then cut his carotid artery.

He also told the publication that after being detained with drugs at the end of March 2017, he remained in this apartment with Ivankin, Dorofeev and Levchenko, with whom he then fled to Ryazan.

Penza case

The criminal case against the “terrorist community “Network”” was opened by the FSB in October 2017. Then, within a month, Zorin, Shakursky, Kuksov, Pchelintsev, Chernov and Sagynbaev were detained in Penza (the latter was found by security forces in St. Petersburg and transported to Penza). Two Penza residents - Ivankin and Kulkov - fled and were put on the wanted list; On July 6, 2018, it became known that they were detained in Moscow, taken to Penza and arrested. In January 2018, Viktor Filinkov and Igor Shishkin were detained in St. Petersburg in connection with the same case. On April 11, charges were brought against another St. Petersburg resident, Yuli Boyarshinov.

Most of the defendants in the case are anti-fascists and anarchists; Many detainees are also united by their passion for airsoft.

Relatives of the Penza defendants in the case said that during their arrest they were planted with weapons and then tortured. spoke in detail about torture Viktor Filinkov , Dmitry Pchelintsev and Ilya Shakursky . In September, Arman Sagynbaev said that he confessed under torture. torture . reported Already in court , another defendant, Andrei Chernov,

also reported on the interrogation with the use of a stun gun Ilya Kapustin , who was released as a witness, - fearing for his safety, he, like Filinkov’s wife Alexandra , went to Finland and received political asylum there.

Pchelintsev and Shakursky said that FSB officers tortured them with electric shocks in the basement of the Penza pre-trial detention center. Shishkin did not report torture, but doctors diagnosed him with a fracture of the lower wall of the orbit, numerous hematomas and abrasions, and members of the Public Monitoring Committee who visited Shishkin in the pre-trial detention center recorded numerous marks on his body similar to burns from electrical wires. In addition, the accused Yuliy Boyarshinov spent several months in the “press huts” of pre-trial detention center No. 6 in the Leningrad region. There he was beaten several times.

The Investigative Committee ignored all the complaints of the defendants in the case regarding torture. So, in the case of Filinkov, the investigator decided that the FSB officers beat him with a stun gun legally, and the marks on Kapustin’s body were not from the stun gun, but from bedbug bites .

One of the defendants in the case, anti-fascist Igor Shishkin, received 3.5 years in prison. He fully admitted his guilt, signed an agreement to cooperate with the investigation and testified against the other defendants. The case against another defendant, Yegor Zorin, was dropped in September 2018. He also testified against other defendants, after which he was released under house arrest. In early February, seven defendants in the case of the “terrorist community “Network”” received sentences ranging from 6 to 18 years in prison. In June, Filinkov and Boyarshinov were sentenced to seven and five and a half years in prison.