The FSB opened the case of the "Moscow cell" of the Penza group of the anarchists "Network". The convicted graduate student of Moscow State University is checked for involvement in it

The FSB opened a criminal case against a group of people whom she considers participants in the Moscow cell of the Penza group of anarchists "Network". According to TASS, citing a source in law enforcement, on February 27, FSB investigators conducted searches "at the addresses of the anarchists and their relatives."

According to the interlocutor of the agency, some of the convicts in the case of the “network” of the anarchists were transferred to the Moscow pre -trial detention center Lefortovo and they testified.

The former graduate student of the Mechanical and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University Azat Miftakhov, who is already serving a six-year term in the case of arson of the United Russia office, is checked for involvement in the Moscow cell. “Earlier, convicts in the case of the Interregional Terrorist Community“ Network ”were confessed in the framework of the new criminal case and indicated Miftakhov as one of the participants in the metropolitan cell,” said TASS source.

The lawyer of Miftakhova Svetlana Sidorkina confirmed The Insider that today's searches were carried out as part of the “network” case. “Regarding Azat, I can only assume and speculate,” the lawyer said. - It is not known to me that the testimonies of <against him> were given to him, rumors go about this. I do not have documented evidence. ”

On February 10, 2020, the court in Penza sentenced to members of the anarchist group “Network”, who were accused of creating a terrorist organization. Seven people were sentenced to terms of 6 to 18 years in prison. The defendants in the case have repeatedly reported on torture, beatings and pressure from the security forces.

On February 27 of the same year, the Penza Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on the murder of Ekaterina Levchenko, who disappeared in 2017, who was called a familiar convicts in the case of a “network”. This was preceded by the publication of Medusa, which stated that Dmitry Pchelintsev and Maxim Ivankin, as well as their acquaintance, Alexei Poltavets, could be involved in the murder of Levchenko.

According to the parents of Levchenko, Catherine and her friend Artem Dorofeev rented an apartment in Penza. In March 2017, they disappeared, and in November in the forest in the Ryazan region they discovered the remains of a young man. The girl’s body was never found.