Arrested in the case of «fakes» the driver of the Moscow head office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Sergey Klokov was going to arrange a call between his colleagues and a policeman from Kiev to tell them about the actions of the Russian military. This is reported by the Wall Street Journal with reference to the case file.
Klokov, a 37-year-old father of two children who grew up in the fighting-affected suburb of Kyiv, Irpen, was detained on March 16 at his workplace. Klokov's mother, Lyudmila, told Meduza that they came to them that evening at around 11:00 p.m. and conducted a search until 4 a.m.
On March 18, Klokov was sent to a pre-trial detention center. Klokov's wife Tatyana complained that she could not meet her husband and hand over things to him. Lawyer Daniil Berman said that Klokov was charged with telephone conversations about the war in Ukraine, although the case file did not contain permission to wiretap his phone.
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According to the WSJ, Klokov is accused of saying on the phone with friends and fellow police officers that Russia was evacuating wounded Russian soldiers to Belarus and underreporting military dead, that the Russian military was killing civilians, and that Ukraine was “not governed.” Nazis.”
“We are sure that we are fighting fascism, but there is no fascism there. Well, no, ”the transcript of Klokov’s conversation with a former colleague is given in the case. “They destroyed my city. Children were killed. [Destroyed] maternity hospitals,” he lamented over the phone with a friend. During interrogation, Klokov said that he had seen a video of dead children, among whom was a girl who looked like his daughter.
Klokov, according to the case file, regularly called up a policeman from Kyiv, a friend of his 67-year-old father, former military Valentin Klokov, who was near Chernigov during the outbreak of the war and evacuated to Germany. Klokov discussed the course of the war with a Kyiv policeman and asked to know about their family friends from Bucha.
In a telephone conversation with a Russian acquaintance, Klokov said that he wanted to arrange a call between his colleagues from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Kyiv policeman so that he «could explain to them what is really happening.» Interrogated by the investigation, Klokov’s colleagues from the Ministry of Internal Affairs recalled that he spoke with them “about politics”, which he did not do before the start of the war in Ukraine.
“[Sergey Klokov] said that we (in Russia – MZ) there was no right to attack and start a war, and when I tried to explain that there was no war, he did not listen, ”one policeman is quoted in the case. “He (Klokov — MZ) told me that our country is an aggressor and a fascist. I tried to reason with him, but he did not listen to me, ”another policeman recounted their conversations.