The defendant in the “palace case” Konstantin Lakeev was transported from the pre-trial detention center in an unknown direction

The 20-year-old defendant in the “palace case,” Konstantin Lakeev, was transported from the Moscow Butyrka pre-trial detention center in an unknown direction. This was reported by the Arresters 212 telegram channel.

In December 2021, Lakeev was sentenced to imprisonment in a colony for a period of 2 years and 8 months. According to investigators, the young man threw snowballs and kicked an FSB car during a rally on January 23, 2021 in support of Alexei Navalny. The young man was charged with damaging property for hooligan reasons (Part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code).

18:40 Lakeev was temporarily transferred to pre-trial detention center-5 Vodnik, writes the project “Prisoners 212”.

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• TikTok blogger Konstantin Lakeev, known under the name Kostya Kievsky, was detained by FSB officers on the evening of January 26, 2021. After this, it became known that that day several young people were detained at once, making videos together on TikTok. The rest of the detainees became witnesses in the Lakeev case. On January 28 he was arrested . Later, in connection with this episode, two more defendants appeared in the case, one of them, a minor, was found guilty on September 1 of using force against a law enforcement officer and damaging property. The court gave him a five-year suspended sentence.
• After the arrest of politician Alexei Navalny in January 2021, a series of protests took place throughout Russia, mass protests took place on Saturday January 23, Sunday January 31 and February 2 (the day Navalny’s suspended sentence was replaced with a real one). The security forces reacted harshly to the protests: on January 23, more than 4,000 people were detained, on January 31, more than 5,500 , and on February 2, more than 1,400 people . In connection with the April 21 protest , more than 2,200 people were detained, including at least 363 on surveillance cameras.
• In connection with protests in support of Alexei Navalny in 2021, criminal cases have been opened across the country against more than 180 people. The totality of these cases is called the “palace case,” since one of the catalysts for the protests was the FBK investigative film “ Palace for Putin. The story of the biggest bribe ." Most of the defendants are accused of using violence against government officials that is not dangerous to life and health (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code).