Together with the commercial director of Sobchak, the ex-head editor of Tatler was detained. What is known about the criminal case

Together with the commercial director of the “Olyn Media” media holding, Ksenia Sobchak Kirill Sukhanov was detained by the former chief editor of Tatler Arian Romanovsky (Kuzmin), RBC and BAZA reported today. According to reports, they go through one criminal case of extortion. In the country house Sobchak was searches.

Today, Romanovsky and Sukhanov should choose a preventive measure. What exactly they are accused of is still unknown. According to a number of media and anonymous telegram channels, they recently created a new telegram channel or were related to several. Allegedly Sukhanov and Romanovsky were engaged in extortion through Telegram from officials. Among the victims are employees of Rostec. RBC, citing sources in law enforcement agencies, writes that the criminal case is associated with receiving money for the so -called “blocks” that guarantee the impermanent of a particular person or company.

This morning, in the case of extortion , searches were held in the Elite Cottage Cottage village of Gorki-8, where Ksenia Sobchak lives. TASS said that Sobchak herself has no procedural status. Details of searches are not given. Sobchak ⁠ Proka ⁠ did not comment on searches, her employees also remain silent.

After the appearance of information about the searches, Ksenia Sobchak published in her telegram channel a message from the human rights project Gulagu.net, which connected the latest events with the film about torture in Russian prisons, which the Sobchak team shot with the founder of Gulagu.net Vladimir Osechkin and his associates.

Kirill Sukhanov was detained on October 25 and delivered to the capital's Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Sobchak called it "delirium" and pressure on journalism.

“Cyril is a businessman and our advertiser, I and my entire editors regard this as another pressure on journalism in the country. There is nothing to do with us and it infuriates them. They constantly detain my journalists. Now they have taken up Cyril and sew his job. A lawyer with him is in touch, ”the journalist wrote in her telegram channel.

Ksenia Sobchak is not in Russia now, the Russian state media say. They write that the journalist left for Lithuania through Belarus.

In early October, TASS sources said that the police asked the UK to initiate a case against Sobchak for the “spread of fakes” about the authorities. The reason was an interview with a journalist with the documentary director Vitaly Mansky, in which he argued that 85% of the budget of the Moscow International Film Festival (MMKF) are plundered.

After that, the film director and President of the MMKF Nikita Mikhalkov wrote a statement on Mansky and accused him of slander. A criminal case was brought to Vitaly Mansky and put on the wanted list. Sobchak was interrogated in this case. Inquiry officers saw in the actions of the journalist the corpus delicti under Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Public distribution of knowingly false information about the use of the RF Armed Forces, the execution of their authority by the state bodies”), but the investigation was not developed.