In Yekaterinburg, three journalists of the pro -government publication URA.RU was released after interrogation in the status of witnesses

The journalist of the pro -government Ural publication URA.RU Sergey Bodrov was released after interrogation, lawyer Georgy Krasnov told Mediazone.

Bodrov passes a witness in the case of abuse of powers by officials from selfish motives (paragraph “E” of part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code). Probably, we are talking about the sale of reports of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to reporters, in fact there are no suspects yet.

From Sergey Bodrov, they took a subscription of non -disclosure of the investigation. “During the interrogation as a witness, he stated that in the implementation of journalistic activities, he never violated the law. He did not give any more evidence, ”the lawyer gave his position.

Following Brandov, in the status of a witness, the editor of the Sverdlovsk edition of URA.RU Denis Allayarova and journalist Anna Salymskaya were released. In the case of Allayarov, a lawyer was not allowed to be either during the search or for interrogation. URA.RU also claims that Allayarova broke his hands to hack his phone.

A search in the morning of June 5 was held in the URA.RU office and apartments of at least three journalists. Representatives of URA.ru talked about the prevention of lawyers and the fact that their editor -in -chief Diana Diana Kozlov was “twisted” during the search. The pregnant employee of the personnel department became bad during searches.

“Investigators are interested in the sources of the origin of information about the events of a criminal nature in the Sverdlovsk region,” explained the claims of the security forces in URA.ru. According to the Yekaterinburg publications , 66.ru and E1.ru , an employee of the police was detained earlier in March, "who testified to the sale of [daily] reports of the Ministry of Internal Affairs" of the URA.RU.

URA.RU is owned by the Ural businessmen Alexei Bobrov and Artem Bikov. The publication supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to the “project”, in 2022, it, including by order of the Ministry of Defense, developed the PR strategy General Lapin, who was criticized by Kadyrov and Prigozhin, and issued custom -made laudatory articles about him.

Sergey Bodrov works at URA.RU by a criminal reporter and regularly releases news written with reference to “Sources in the Power Environment”; He also covers court hearings related to murders and accidents. Denis Allayarov writes about the work of the Sverdlovsk officials and issues complimentary materials about the governor Denis Pasler and the mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexei Orlov.

Updated at 13:10 . Information about the release of all three journalists was added to the news and the title; Previously, it was said only about vigor.