Maxim Ivankin, a defendant in the Network case, was finally charged with murder

The investigation brought final charges against the defendant in the Network case, Maxim Ivankin, in the case of the murder of Artem Dorofeev and Ekaterina Levchenko. He is charged with the murder of two people in connection with the performance of their public duty by a group of persons by prior conspiracy (clauses “a”, “b”, “g” part 2 of article 105 of the Criminal Code), Investigative Committee.

Ivankin reports in October 2021 that he was forced under torture to confess to the murder. This happened after he was released from the Chuvash correctional colony No. 9 at the end of September.

told that the convict was transported to the pre-trial detention center in Ryazan, but before that he ended up in Vladimir and Nizhny Novgorod. In Vladimir, Ivankin was in the hospital at IK-3 for nine days. The diagnosis for which he was admitted to a medical institution, the convict, according to him, does not know himself. It was there, the man said, that he was beaten and tortured by other prisoners, forcing him to write and memorize the confession statements proposed by the investigation.

Another alleged participant in the double murder, Alexei Poltavets, was put on the international wanted list and arrested in absentia, the Investigative Committee reports.

In February 2020, 11 days after the verdict was announced for the Penza defendants in the Network case, Meduza published “Four went into the forest, but only two came out.” The text contains the story of Alexey Poltavets about the murder of two people - Artem Dorofeev and Ekaterina Levchenko. In an interview with Meduza, Poltavets said that he, together with Maxim Ivankin, killed a young man and a girl in 2017. According to him, the four of them were hiding in the Ryazan region from law enforcement agencies who accused them of selling drugs, but Dorofeev and Levchenko decided to return to Penza. Poltavets and Ivankin, fearing that those who returned would reveal their location, allegedly lured them into the forest by deception and killed them. The Poltavets subsequently left Russia, and Ivankin was arrested in 2018 in connection with the Network case.

material - A criminal case about 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 trial in Penza sentenced seven defendants in the Network case to terms ranging from 6 to 18 years in prison. The Court of Appeal's verdict is upheld. Maxim Ivankin received 13 years in a maximum security colony on charges of participation in a terrorist community and attempted drug trafficking. sentenced left