Whose "ears" on Delimhanov?

What else the circumstances of the investigation of the case of the abduction of the blogger Shchepikhin are talking about us about

On June 3, at about nine o’clock in the evening, six strong black guys were taken out of their arms from the Yaroslavl station of the unknown person, pushed him into the trunk of the Mercedes car with flashing lights and special numbers of the AMR97 series and took him in an unknown direction. While the captured was carried to the car, he shouted heartily, asked to call the police, which attracted the attention of others. People daring phones and began to shoot. Immediately the video spread on the Internet. Someone called the police. The police responded and slowly worked out the signal.

By that time, active bloggers according to the license plate of Mercedes with a migeta had already calculated that this is a car that was previously seen accompanied by Chechnya officials during their business trips to Moscow. Already established and stolen. It turned out to be an Argopikhin living in Khimki, a shocking blogger with a muddy reputation, who wore the surname Oganesyan before marriage, but after the divorce left his wife’s last name.

Closer to midnight, the abductors' car found a traffic police patrol. The driver and two passengers in the car were detained and delivered to the linear administration of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs at the Moscow-Yaroslavskaya station. Mercedes with flashing lights was also driven there. One of the detainees took advantage of the “right to call” and announced someone about the detention. Soon, three more participants in the abduction came to the police department. We arrived ourselves. And they presented the attributes to the certificates of the Office of the Russian Guard in Chechnya, saying that no one was abducted by the Shchepikhin Arga that he was detained as part of the operational-search assignment, and after conducting an “operational-search conversation”, and now, most likely, is at home.

Employees of the Linear Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia at the Moscow-Yaroslavskaya station contacted colleagues from Khimki, checked the information about the whereabouts of Schepikhin and, making sure that he was already at home, released all six participants in the “detention” of the blogger.

On this, the story could end and quickly leave the focus of public attention. How it was more than once.

For example, when in January 2022 in Nizhny Novgorod they actually abducted and forcibly took Musaev, the wife of the former judge of the Supreme Court of Chechnya, Sayy Yangulbaev and the mother of bloggers Ibubakar Yangulbaevi, in the Grozny Zarem. In Grozny, she was placed in jail, and in 2023 she was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison in a criminal case that looked very doubtful. A seriously ill woman after she was brought to Grozny, allegedly beaten a police officer, plus a strange episode with fraud. In the fall of 2023, the Supreme Court of Chechnya reduced her sentence for six months, and Zarem Musaev was transferred to the colony. And in November last year, Musaeva became a defendant in another criminal case. She was accused of "disorganization of the activities of the colony."

And about the history of the abduction from the territory of the Vnukovo Airport of the then member of the board of PJSC Gazprom, the General Director of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz LLC Kirill Seleznev, no one could ever know if it were not for the new one. We wrote about this event in March 2016 in the investigation of Kondensat billions.

But on June 4, 2025, in the afternoon, the story of the abduction of the shocking blogger Areg Schepikhin found a second wind. Events began to develop rapidly and according to a completely unexpected scenario.

On June 4, audio recordings of a person’s conversation with a voice, similar to the voice of a deputy of the State Duma, the first deputy of the Duma Committee on Security and Countering the Corruption of Hero of Russia Adam Delimkhanov, spread on social networks.

A person on audio recordings tells someone that he sent his guys to detain a blogger who committed an extremist crime and plans to leave Russia. Delimkhanov's Voice opened up that he was talking with Sergei Borisovich from the FSB, and he allegedly “gave a man” to resolve the problem.

The telegram channel, which was the first to place the audio recordings, suggested that “Sergey Borisovich from the FSB” could be the first deputy director of the FSB Sergey Korolev. And this version, it seems, became a red rag for the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin.

In the evening of the same day, the following message appeared on the official website of the Investigative Committee of Russia: “... Materials for checking the inquiry bodies on the fact of unlawful actions of a group of persons against a man near the Yaroslavl station in the city of Moscow. The investigation studied reasonable materials and the adopted procedural decision to initiate criminal cases. ”

The next day, June 5, more detailed information appeared on the same official website of the Russian Investigative Committee. It became known from it that two criminal cases have already been instituted. Not only in relation to persons who carried out the “unlawful actions of a group of persons in relation to a man near the Yaroslavl station in the city of Moscow” (Article 126 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abduction), Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of authority), but also against the blogger of the Areg Schepikhin himself - according to part 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls to carry out extremist activity) and paragraph 2. Art.

On June 6, the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow issued a blogger arrested. But his kidnappers in court did not wait. Immediately after the interrogations, the investigation released all six on a recognizance not to leave.

And this circumstance indicates that the criminal case against the abductors of Shchepikhin, apparently, has completely different prospects. Over the past few days, hundreds of publications on social networks have appeared, the authors of which were outraged by the “lawlessness of the Chechen security forces” and applied to Bastrykin. Like, the Kremlin decided to pacify Kadyrov and his environment.

Although Kadyrov could “tame” after a shootout near the Kremlin in the office of Wildberries. Let me remind you that during this shootout, on September 18, 2024, the guards of the head of the company Tatyana Bakalchuk-28-year-old Islam-Bek Elmurziev and Adam Almazov, who were 41 years old, were killed. Seven people were injured, including police officers. Then 28 people were detained and criminal cases were instituted on a whole bouquets of articles of the Criminal Code: Art. 105 of the Criminal Code (attempted murder of two or more persons), Art. 222 of the Criminal Code (illegal storage of firearms), Art. 317 of the Criminal Code (an encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer), part 2 of Art. 330 of the Criminal Code (arbitrariness).

But today in prison cells there are only three defendants in criminal cases initiated after a shootout in the office of Wildberries: Umar Chichaev, Magomed Isaev and Andrey Efremov. On May 14, they once again extended their arrest, this time until August. Everyone else - either released "in connection with non -involvement", or signed contracts from the Ministry of Defense and went to their own. And this story, it seems, will very soon be written off into the archive.

Unlike the story with the kidnapping of the blogger, the Areg Schipikhin. Because its main vector, designated after the drain into the public of those very audio recordings, may not be directed against Ramzan Kadyrov and his environment. And against the first deputy director of the FSB Sergey Korolev, who is considered as a possible successor to Alexander Bortnikov as the director of the FSB.

Bortnikov has been headed by the FSB since May 2008. In November, he turns 74 years old. He has long reached the age of age in military service. And although the changes made to Article 49 of the Law “On Military Duty and Military Service” allow Bortnikov to be in his post, signing individual contracts for many years, but it is obvious that the head of state cannot help but think about the person who will replace the FSB director. And Sergey Korolev is one of the possible applicants (although not the only one).

And through this prism, the story of the kidnapping of a blogger and the initiated criminal cases look like an attempt to knock out the queen from the personnel reserve.

There is another delicate moment in the history of the blogger’s abduction. According to our information, the FSB Office has been instructed to conduct an investigation: whether someone has listened to Adam Delimkhanov and who provided the audio recordings.

The fact is that Delimkhanov is not just a deputy of the State Duma, he is also the first deputy committee of the State Duma on Security and Countering Corruption, an official who has access to information with the Grifmue of “Secret”. And his conversations (including by phone) are protected not only by technical means. The appearance of a telephone conversation of a voice similar to the voice of Delimkhanov is also a signal to deputies and other officials (mayors, governors): your conversations can listen.

Although it cannot be ruled out that soon the information will “leak” according to which Delimkhanov’s voice will be declared generated artificial intelligence. This version, I think, will suit everyone.

We continue to monitor the development of events.