The 235th Garrison Military Court in Moscow sent Pavel Guguev to pretrial detention in a case of confidential cooperation with foreigners (Article 275.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Mediazona, citing the court's press service.
The details of the case are unknown - the court cited the confidentiality of the investigation.
Pavel Guguev is a former prisoner. In 2013, the Noginsk City Court of the Moscow Region sentenced him to 12 years in a special regime penal colony under articles on murder (Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code), causing harm of moderate severity (Part 1 of Article 112 of the Criminal Code), and theft (clause "b" of Part 2 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code). In 2012, the same court sentenced him to one and a half years probation in another theft case.
According to Mediazona, Guguev spent 10 of his 12 years in prison. According to Kholod, in May 2023, he went to war in Ukraine and was captured a few weeks later. The man gave an interview to Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Karpenko, in which the former prisoner spoke about the heavy losses among the Russian military. The recording was published on Vladimir Zolkin's YouTube channel.
Then Guguev was exchanged. In Russia, the man gave a second interview to Dmitry Karpenko, which was published in July 2023. The former prisoner again spoke about the situation in the Russian army and the fact that soldiers recruited in the colonies who had been returned from Ukrainian captivity were not allowed to go home for more than a month. He also said that in Russia he was offered to announce that he had been “forced” to give an interview in Ukraine.
Another prisoner told Kholod that Guguev gave an interview from Russia in a military unit in the Moscow region. According to his friend, the next day after that, all the prisoners who were in that unit had their phones taken away, were forbidden to go for walks and receive parcels. Guguev was sent for several days to a room that had previously been used as an armory.
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