The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against the founder of Gulagu.net Vladimir Osechkin for spreading «fake news» about the war in Ukraine. This was reported by the Moscow department of the department.
The case of the spread of «fake news» based on political hatred was opened because of a video posted on the YouTube channel Gulagu.net in March. (Clause «e» of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) It is not known what video is being referred to.
“Currently, the issue of declaring the defendant on the wanted list is being considered,” the release says. The human rights activist left Russia in 2015 after the searches and now lives in France. The Ministry of Internal Affairs put him on the wanted list several times in a case of fraud.
The last time Osechkin was put on the wanted list was in the fall of 2021, shortly after the Gulagu.net project published a video of torture in the Saratov prison hospital. In September 2022, Osechkin said that «a man closely associated with the FSB» tried to kill him in France.
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