Justice on the march

Can Putin, by law, have mercy on Prigozhin, who arranged a “march of justice” - he is a “rebellion”? Analysis

On the evening of June 24, the Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov informed that "the criminal case against Evgeny Prigozhin will be discontinued." The authorities will also not pursue the Wagner fighters participating in the rebellion. Guarantees - "Word of the President."

The problem is that according to the law, the president, not to mention his spokesman, is incompetent here. The case of an armed rebellion is not a private prosecution, even if he was considered by Vladimir Putin even so “according to concepts”. According to Art. 213 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, a decree of the investigator who established the fact of the lack of an event or corpus delicti is required. The President has not yet entitled to even have mercy on the rebukeers of the rebellion: for this they must be convicted by the court first.

The fact that “the statements of the founder of the Wagner PMC Evgeny Prigozhin became the basis for initiating a criminal case of calling for an armed rebellion”, at 22 hours 59 minutes, TASS reported on June 23, but with reference not to the FSB, where the National Anti -Terrorism Committee was issued (the heads of all law enforcement agencies are included). Soon the legality of the decision was confirmed by the Prosecutor General, clarifying that the case under Art. 279 of the Criminal Code was excited "in relation to Prigozhin E.V.".

And on the night of June 24, Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov "informed the president of the legality of these legal actions."

It is strange that in this situation Alexander Bastrykin was silent, who invariably initiates criminal cases against those to whom the UK obviously cannot reach.

Although Art. 279 of the Criminal Code belongs to the jurisdiction of the FSB, in the actions of the rebels there is a whole set of various corpus delicti - they would be enough for all.

Along with the rebellion , there are facts of destruction of helicopters and an airplane of regular armed forces and, probably, the death of their crews , the destruction of property and, of course, the organization of illegal armed formation (Article 208 of the Criminal Code, part 2 from 10 to 20 years in prison). If desired , “fakes” can be added to the cocktail regarding the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation .

The lawyer of the Public Verdict Foundation (recognized as a “foreign agent”) Irina Biryukova on the air of the Rain TV channel (recognized as a “foreign agent”) suggested that

The case could not have been initiated in relation to Prigozhin, but “in fact”, and now the investigation of the FSB will try to “not establish the organizers of the rebellion”. It seems unlikely to me: Prigozhin's performances during the “march of justice” were too eloquent,

And messages of government sources were immediately indicated directly to him. Perhaps, it will not be possible to “establish” persons involved in the destruction of the equipment of the armed forces and the death of the crews.

The movement of Prigozhin and his private army in Belarus legally changes little: Minsk is not London, and the agreement on the mutual issuance of accused of criminal offenses between the Russian Federation and Belarus has yet acted trouble -free.

So the investigator of the FSB, to whom the leadership of the department “painted” the case of Prigozhinsky rebellion, remains to use the design of the necessary defense and the “right to uprising”, which is enshrined in the preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

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“It is necessary that human rights be protected by the power of the law in order to ensure that a person is not forced to resort, as the last means, to an uprising against tyranny and oppression.”

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On Monday, June 26, it became known that the case against Prigozhin under Article 279 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Armed rebellion” has not yet been discontinued.