«BBC Russian Service» reports that those convicted in the case of the «Network terrorist community» Dmitry Pchelintsev, Arman Sagynbaev and Andrey Chernov spoke about the threats of the investigator.
Pchelintsev said that in August two investigators came to his colony, one of whom is investigating a double murder in a forest near Ryazan. “He began to threaten me that if I didn’t testify against Maxim Ivankin, they would come up with some kind of accusation. He hinted that if you add as much as you like to my deadline, you get a life sentence, «he said.
Pchelintsev added that in November the jailer gave him new threats from the investigator: “Either I testify against Maxim voluntarily, or they take me out. It is clear why they are being taken out, because Maxim was taken out and tortured. »
Sergei Chernov told the BBC that the investigator visited his son Andrey Chernov in June 2021. According to the interlocutor of the publication, the security officer threatened that if Chernov Jr. did not come up with a testimony against Ivankin, he would «become an accomplice.» “You understand that you got 14 years for nothing, you understand that we can easily slap any business,” said the convict's father.
In May, the investigator visited Arman Sagynbaev, says his mother, Elena Strigina. “He forced him to testify against Ivankin. And he did not know the killed guys at all. The investigator told him: « You know that you are sitting for nothing on this [Network] case, and you know perfectly well that we can still hang some cases on you. We will take you to Penza, and on the way you yourself will sign what was and what was not, «» she said.
» We were forced to learn and retell the attendance by heart. » Ivankin, convicted in the Network case, on how he was forced to confess to the murder near Ryazan
In the winter of 2020 Meduza published the story of Alexey Poltavets, a friend of the defendants in the «Network» case, that he, along with Ivankin, on the orders of Pchelintsev, killed Yekaterina Levchenko and Artem Dorofeev.
In October 2021, Ivankin said that in the prison hospital he was forced to confess in the murder case. Later he refused them.