Provocateur Alexey Kan, who handed over 20 kilograms of salt to pediatrician Nadezhda Buyanova in a pre-trial detention center, was unable to exceed the weight limit for the transfers. Maria Botova reported this to the Moscow PSC on June 18.
“She did not receive the program that was written about in the media. The management of the pre-trial detention center showed prudence and did not accept such a transfer (Nadezhda Fedorovna refused to accept it). And the “well-wisher”, apparently, did not know all the subtleties. Well, or had some thoughts of my own on this matter,” wrote Botova.
On May 31, it became known that Nadezhda Buyanova was given 20 kilograms of salt in the pre-trial detention center, which almost completely exhausted the weight limit for transfers to the pre-trial detention center. Lawyer Oscar Cherdzhiev told reporters that the transfer was made by a certain Alexey Kan.
Nadezhda Buyanova’s support group found Kan’s contact and called him asking why he tried to exhaust the limit on transfers. “I wanted it and I did it,” Alexey Kan answered them and hung up.
The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, ordered the case against 67-year-old Nadezhda Buyanova to be initiated. According to investigators, the pediatrician “expressed negative comments while seeing patients” about the actions of the Russian military in Ukraine (Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).
Shortly before the case was opened, the widow of a Russian military man who died in Ukraine complained to Buyanova. According to the woman, she brought her son for an examination because of problems with his eye. At the appointment, the child “began to be capricious,” and the therapist asked Anastasia what was causing this. The mother explained that her son missed his father. The doctor allegedly replied that the man was “a legitimate target for Ukraine, and in general, Russia itself is to blame.” After this, Anastasia filed a police report against the doctor.
The investigation demanded the arrest of Buyanova, but at first the court did not grant this request and chose a more lenient preventive measure — a ban on certain actions. Two months later, the court did not even extend this preventive measure. At the same time, the woman’s passport was confiscated due to “doubts about its authenticity.”
At the end of April, the court nevertheless tightened the preventive measure for Buyanova and sent her to a pre-trial detention center. The investigation, in the next petition for arrest, insisted that Buyanova left for another region without notifying her. By doing this, she allegedly “created conditions that precluded maintaining contact with the investigator in order to call her for procedural actions.”
After this, more than 250 doctors demanded the release of Nadezhda Buyanova in an open letter, which was published on Facebook by anesthesiologist-resuscitator Alexander Polupan .
The case against Nadezhda Buyanova is now being considered by the Tushinsky District Court.