The Kirovsky District Court of Irkutsk arrested Alexander Levchishin, a 35-year-old resident of Bratsk, who worked as a programmer at a local hospital, for two months. He is accused of «using programs designed to unlawfully influence critical information infrastructure, causing grave consequences» (Part 5 of Article 274.1 of the Criminal Code). The meeting was held on August 6, the press service told Mediazone.
An acquaintance of Levchishin told Mediazona that FSB officers detained the programmer at the end of July: “He was detained somewhere at the end of July in Bratsk. They came to the apartment with a search. They came from the FSB. He was kept in Bratsk for a week, then transferred to Irkutsk. He left elderly parents: a disabled mother, a father with oncology, ”he wrote.
Mediazona was able to contact Alexander's father, Vadim Levchishin, who confirmed his detention and arrest, but he himself did not know what specific charges were being brought against his son — neither the security forces nor the appointed lawyer provided this information to his parents.
“First they came to work, and then they came home, and we are at a loss — old elderly sick people, I am an oncologist, my wife is also barely a soul in the body. We couldn’t really demand anything specifically legally, some documents and so on,” says Levchyshyn’s father. — Well, they wrote everything here, and we, like fools, stood and waited. There were supposedly attesting witnesses, a search, they took away laptops, took away phones, took away bank cards. There are a lot of epithets. Here he was sewed and a traitor, and an extremist, and the transfer of information.
Vadim Levchyshyn also does not know what exactly his son is accused of: “The transmission of some secret information, although he actually worked in a medical institution. Well, he had some contacts, connected with the NWO. I don't know, he didn't even serve. Well, as if he was conveying some information about someone and something. Well, maybe, I don’t know, there was some kind of provocation, maybe something else. We didn't notice anything. The whole thing doesn't even fit in my head.»
After the search, the security forces took Levchyshyn away, without telling his parents where exactly, but the man's father says, «as if in the FSB city.» Relatives called there in the evening, and they were told that the detainee was released after «a peaceful conversation.»
“[They say]:“ He left, look for the police. We went to the police… Then somehow they found out that he was in a temporary detention center,” says the father of the accused.
On the website of the Bratsk City Court there is a case card, according to which on July 27 they considered the administrative protocol on petty hooliganism drawn up against Levchishin (Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). His parents don't know anything about it.
“He was there, they gave parcels, the phone was so cheap that he could talk according to these rules. But nothing was handed over to him,” says the father of the programmer. — Then the day before yesterday, in my opinion, they called — «but he's not there, we let him go, go to the police.» We go to the police, the police know nothing. Then they gave him a call, he said: «I am in Irkutsk, in the FSB.» Whether there was a court, or something, they were arrested for two months.
The article under which Levchyshyn is accused provides for up to 10 years in prison. In June, a court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced local resident Igor Bayandin to two years in a colony-settlement and a fine of half a million rubles on such a charge. He was found guilty in the case of attacks on the websites of Russian companies and banks. According to the case file, Bayandin did this “because he had a negative attitude towards the NWO being conducted by the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine.”
In May, in the same case, the Rostov Regional Court sentenced Yevgeny Kotikov to three years in a colony-settlement, he was also ordered to pay a fine of 800,000 rubles. The FSB claimed that the programmer “sided with Ukraine” and joined a group of hackers whose actions led to the blocking of the websites of the Ministry of Defense and the presidential administration.