Investigator for especially important cases of the first investigation department of the second department for the investigation of especially important cases (crimes against state power and in the sphere of economy) of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Moscow Region Kobylyatsky Y. I. initiates a criminal case against 67-year-old Stepan Adamov on the grounds of a crime under Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
The ruling states that the believer, "while in the car, [...] assisted in teaching, interpreted the Bible and read a prayer to Jehovah God, explaining the religious concepts of the religious movement of the faith of Jehovah's Witnesses, giving examples from life."
The criminal case of Stepan Adamov is combined with the criminal case initiated in September 2019 against believers from Chekhov: Yuri and Zinaida Krutyakov, Konstantin Zherebtsov and Vitaly Nikiforov, accused of extremism.
Investigator Y. Kobylyatsky makes a decision on the separation of the criminal case against Adamov into a separate proceeding. It is assigned a new number: 42002460043000109.