“Mediazona”: convicted leaders of the “torture” penal colony No. 7 in Karelia were released early

The convicted leaders of the Karelian correctional colony No. 7, in which the activist Ildar Dadin, who served time there, spoke about torture, were released ahead of schedule. about it Writes "Mediazona".

In 2019, the Segezha city court sentenced the former head of the Karelian IK-7 Sergey Kossiev to 2 years and 6 months in a general regime colony for exceeding his powers and abusing them (part 1 of article 285 of the Criminal Code, part 1 of article 286 of the Criminal Code)

His deputy Anatoly Luist received three years in a penal colony for abuse of power and excess of it, as well as for taking a bribe (part 3 of article 290 of the Criminal Code).

Already in July 2020, the Kirovo-Chepetsky District Court replaced Luist with the unserved part of the sentence for restriction of freedom. Until December 2021, he cannot leave the Segezha district. Mediazona writes that he now lives in Segezha with his wife and children and works as a taxi driver.

The court released Kossiev on parole in April 2020. In the Kirov-Chepetsk colony, he spent a little more than six months, the newspaper notes. According to Luist, Kossiev also lives in Segezha and works as a driver.

At the same time, the Kirovo-Chepetsky Court did not publish the relevant court decisions on the website and refused to provide them to Mediazona.

Five of the eight victims said that the court did not notify them of the hearing. Lawyer Pavel Kotov, representing their interests, emphasized that the court must notify the victims even if during the process they did not file a separate petition about it. One of the victims, Daniil Popov, told reporters that he would be categorically against Kossiev's parole.

Anatoly Luist said in a conversation with Mediazona that he “does not want to know anything about Kossiev and does not understand why he served time.” According to him, he would not return to serve in the Federal Penitentiary Service, because "this is a rotten system from head to toe."

The cases of Kossiev and Luist were considered in a special order, since both gave confessions. Former employees of the colony were accused of deliberately sending wealthy prisoners of the colony to “work sites where hard physical labor was used” in 2016, demanding a bribe for “repairs and landscaping” for easing the regime.

Activist Ildar Dadin spoke in letters about beatings and torture in the Karelian colony. According to him, this was done by the staff of the colony together with its head, but the checks of the Karelian department of the Investigative Committee did not confirm the facts of illegal use of violence against prisoners.

Later, the activist's words were confirmed by relatives of the prisoners, who wrote a collective letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin about torture in the colony, asking them to take the investigation under their personal control.