Father of ex-FBK director Ivan Zhdanov sent to solitary confinement after blade planted

Yuri Zhdanov, who is serving his sentence in Correctional Colony No. 14 in Velsk, Arkhangelsk Region, had a blade planted in his pillowcase. This was reported by his son, former director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation Ivan Zhdanov.

reported They are planning to impose an administrative penalty on the prisoner. According to Navalny's ally, his father found and threw away the blade himself, but a report on its discovery had already been filed.

Yuri Zhdanov was sentenced to three years in prison under articles on official forgery (Article 292 of the Criminal Code) and fraud on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code). According to the investigation, he, while on the housing commission, recommended that the head of the village of Iskateley allocate an apartment to a local resident under a social tenancy agreement. Initially, the sentence was suspended, but in February 2022, the punishment was replaced with real imprisonment. The man was in a pre-trial detention center since March 2021, and a year later he was sent to a penal colony.

sentenced and transported Ivan Zhdanov has repeatedly stated that the case against his father is a way to put pressure on him.

Yuri Zhdanov's conditions of detention in the colony are being tightened. "Now there will be fewer opportunities to call, fewer parcels and fewer opportunities to buy food," Ivan Zhdanov.

13:23 reported Yuri Zhdanov was placed in a punishment cell. Ivan Zhdanov reported this on Twitter.

19:20 Yuri Zhdanov reported that he was released from the punishment cell. His friend Olga Elsakova told OVD-Info about this. In a letter to the woman, Zhdanov reported that at the same time as being placed in the punishment cell, he was given the status of a "malicious offender", but the father of the former FBK director managed to avoid being transferred to strict conditions of detention (SUS).

July 10 - Forgery of razor blades is a common practice in Russian prison colonies. This is done in order to have grounds for filing an administrative penalty against a prisoner. In 2021, Viktor Filinkov, convicted in the Network case, was given a robe in which a razor blade was hidden, which is why he was sent to a single cell-type room for a month (). Nail Miniakhmetov, a defendant in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case, was also given razor blades, threatening to transfer him from the colony to prison. They planted a single PKT - In June 2021, the Moscow City Court recognized the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), the Citizens' Rights Protection Foundation (CRPF) and Alexei Navalny's headquarters as extremist organizations