TASS: a search is underway in Ksenia Sobchak’s house near Moscow

The house of journalist Ksenia Sobchak near Moscow is being searched as part of a criminal case against her commercial director, Kirill Sukhanov. TASS reported this with reference to law enforcement agencies.

writes “Sobchak is being searched in connection with an extortion case, in which her commercial director Kirill Sukhanov was detained. Sobchak herself does not have any procedural status,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

Sukhanov the day before. “My entire editorial team and I regard this as yet another pressure on journalism in the country. There is nothing to get at us for and this infuriates them. They constantly detain my journalists. Now they have taken on Kirill and are making a case for him,” Sobchak’s detention.

detained commented It is also reported that the former editor-in-chief of the Tatler social life magazine Arian Romanovsky (Kuzmin) was detained. According to Baza, he is involved in the same case with Sukhanov.

12:20 information Ksenia Sobchak left for Lithuania via Minsk, Baza. The operatives went to Vnukovo-3 airport to detain her, but were unable to do so.

15:21 writes In addition, Baza, that the statement of extortion was written by the head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov. Sukhanov and Romanovsky are suspected of extortion (Part 3 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code).

TASS reports that Ksenia Sobchak has become a suspect in a case of extortion (clause “b”, part 3 of article 163 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, she was engaged in extortion from the state corporation Rostec.

18:24 reports According to the publication “Novaya Gazeta. Europe" former Tatler editor-in-chief Arian Romanovsky is charged with extortion (Part 3 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code). He was detained along with Sobchak’s commercial director Kirill Sukhanov, whose status in the case is not yet known.

presented, the Tverskoy District Court sent Kirill Sukhanov to a pre-trial detention center until December 24. His lawyer Svetlana Lipatova asked to choose a preventive measure in the form of bail or house arrest. “Mediazona” is about this.

20:36 reports Arian Romanovsky was also sent to a pre-trial detention center until December 24. Romanovsky's defense insisted on a milder measure of restraint, pointing out that there was no reason to believe that the man would want to escape. “Mediazona” is about this.

21:54 reports Ksenia Sobchak is not a suspect in a criminal case of extortion (Part 3 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code). RBC reported this with reference to a source familiar with the case materials.

October 28, 17:24 TASS reports that Sobchak is being held as a witness in the case of extorting 11 million rubles from the head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov.

October 29, 13:23 reports The source of the publication emphasizes that she was previously a suspect: “The investigator of the Ministry of Internal Affairs canceled the decision to involve Sobchak as a suspect. At the moment she has the status of a witness.”

In a conversation with “Caution, News,” Sobchak’s lawyer Sergei Badamshin said that Sobchak “did not have and does not have the status of a suspect or accused.” According to him, two persons have been charged in the case.

reported - Russian authorities periodically use the article on extortion (Article 163 of the Criminal Code) to put pressure on political activists and journalists. Under arrest for this article are the journalists of “Rosderzhava” Yan Katelevsky and Alexander Dorogov, the telegram channel “Hell Grandmothers” Alexander Bayazitov and the Kemerovo human rights project “Siberia Legal” Dmitry Kamynin and Vladimir Taranenko. are the author's staff