The Supreme Court sent a review of the Irkutsk employees of the FSIN to a revision, who were accused of torture of a prisoner and sexualized violence; In January they were released

The Supreme Court of Russia canceled the appeal decision on the verdict of ex-employees of the Irkutsk pre-trial detention center Maxim Wolf, Andrei Melentiev, Maxim Danchinov, Evgeny Shadayev and Andrei Moskvitin, who were previously found guilty of organizing the torture of the prisoner Kzhik Ondar. This was announced by the correspondent of Sotavision from the courtroom.

In January 2025, the Fifth Court of Appeal softened the charge to former FSIN employees in excess of authority (Article 286 of the Criminal Code) for negligence (Article 293 of the Criminal Code). In connection with the replacement of qualifications, the accused facilitated the punishment-instead of a period of four to five years in a colony of general regime, two years were appointed in a colony-settlement.

Given the time spent in the investigative insulator, the court of appeal released all the ex-employees of the insulator to freedom.

The Supreme Court in a cassation decision canceled the verdict to the employees of the FSIN and sent their case for re -consideration to the fifth court of appeal. The accused, as Sotavision notes, will “remain at large” during the process.

In August 2023, the Irkutsk Regional Court recognized the ex-head of the operational department of the Irkutsk pre-trial detention center Maxim Wolf, the senior detective Andrei Melentyev, the younger inspector of the Dadchinov duty group, the assistant chief of the isolator Yevgeny Shadaev and the Federal Penitentiary Service employee Andrei Moskvitin guilty of torture the concluded Kezhik Onder the use of sexualized violence.

According to investigators, in November 2020, the FSIN officers falsified the report on the need to transfer the prisoner convicted of the theft of a horse to another camera at the SIZO-1. As the prisoner’s sister said , after that he was placed in a “press khata”, where the cellmates “beat him, tortured, mocked, kept the attached days, inflicted a mutilated penis, put the boiler into the anus, and he exploded in it.”

The translation of Ondar into pre-trial detention center-1 occurred shortly after the rebellion in the Angarskaya IK-15. The FSIN employees demanded that the prisoner admit that he was involved in a fabric of the colony and the murder of a person - Kezhik refused to do this.

In April 2024, the Fifth Court of Appeal returned the case of torture by the prisoner to the prosecutor's office. The lawyer of the victim Dmitry Dmitriev suggested that the FSIN employees would “justify”. Later it became known that the prosecutor's office did not find a “causal relationship between the causal consequences and actions of the pre-trial detention center,” said human rights activist Svyatoslav Khenkov.