The Khabarovsk Regional Court sentenced shopping center security guard Alexander Batsenin to 12 years in a maximum security colony and one and a half years of restriction of freedom in a treason case (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court.
The verdict was handed down on May 31. From verdict text it follows that from November 12, 2022 to March 4, 2023, Alexander Batsenin corresponded in a telegram with a member of the “Russian Volunteer Corps” (RDK) fighting on the side of Ukraine under the nickname “Oswald Lemokh”.
“Guided by his anti-Russian views and attitudes,” as well as a “pro-Ukrainian ideological position,” in early June 2023, he transferred 779 rubles.
Batsenin, according to the prosecution, tried to make two more transfers in May and June , but they turned out to be unsuccessful — in one case the transfer was rejected by the bank, in the other by the crypto exchange.
The 29-year-old Khabarovsk resident was detained in September 2023 on his way to work, his father Dmitry Batsenin told Mediazona. He added that his son was diagnosed with “organic personality disorder” in 2014, and he “can neither defend himself nor appeal with any data.”
After his arrest, Batsenin admitted his guilt and entered into a pre-trial agreement with the investigation, the verdict says.
12 years for transfer 779 rubles. How a shopping center security guard from Khabarovsk was convicted of treason for donating to Ukraine
In Batsenin told his family that while he was being detained, FSB officers beat him, “put a bag over his head” and planted a phone in his bag,” from which, according to investigators, the money was transferred. In October 2023, Batsenin wrote to his father that “they put a lot of pressure and force him to work with them,” and the appointed lawyer Natalya Kosheleva ignored his requests for a meeting and “doesn’t help at all.”
At the end of 2023, Khabarovsky The regional court immediately reported four verdicts in cases of treason. Thus, on December 20, a former senior warrant officer received nine and a half years on charges of transferring information about a military facility to the Ukrainian special service. In mid-October, another Khabarovsk resident received seven years in prison for transferring money to the account of a Ukrainian organization that purchases equipment and equipment for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the same month, a woman was convicted of treason — she was accused of transferring money to a Ukrainian fund and sentenced to eight years in prison (the BBC assumed that we were talking about 24-year-old Tamara Parshina).