Environmental activist missing in Ufa found

Social activist Ilgam Yanberdin (Ilgam Vakhtovik), who went missing on the night of October 10, was found alive. This was reported by the publication “Idel.Realii” with reference to the press service of the Investigative Committee for Bashkortostan.

However, the Investigative Committee does not specify where Yanberdin was found. “The police called me in the evening and said that Ilgam had been found, that he would soon be brought to Ufa and that I would be invited [to the police department],” the activist’s wife, Rasima Manaeva, told the publication.

As Idel.Realii writes, according to some local media, Yanberdin was discovered in the Karmaskalinsky district of the republic.

Ilgam Yanberdin is known in Bashkortostan as an active participant in protests. Among them are rallies in defense of the Kushtau Shikhan and actions by supporters of Alexei Navalny. He was prosecuted for the January 2021 protests.

23:44 Yanberdin left the OP No. 1 in Ufa, reports the publication Idel.Realii. He noted that he is alive and well, but “his condition is serious.”

• Yanberdin disappeared on the night of October 10-11. The day before his disappearance, he told his associates about plans to attend a rally in defense of the monument to Salavat Yulaev in Ufa on October 11, at which about 10 people were detained . He never showed up at the protest.
• On October 17, passers-bydiscovered Yanberdin’s phone and personal belongings in a forested area of ​​the Ufa microdistrict Inors, near the place where the activist lived. The materials of the missing person case have been transferred to the criminal investigation department.
• In Ufa, the Ministry of Internal Affairs recovered more than two million rubles from Liliya Chanysheva, Ilgam Yanberdin and Olga Komleva for the “work” of police officers during the January rallies. A court in Omsk made a similar decision - Daniil Chebykin and Nikita Konstantinov were considered the organizers of the actions on January 23 and 31 and were ordered to pay the Ministry of Internal Affairs more than one and a half million rubles.
• In June 2021, Ilgam Yanberdin was detained at a public gathering after beating environmental activist Ildar Yumagulov; the action took place on April 25 in Baymak. Yanberdin was later released from court. The case materials were sent back to the police for verification due to violations in the preparation of the protocol.