Case of Teterin and Others in Severodvinsk

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    Judge of the Severodvinsk City Court Alexei Brechalov decides to limit the constitutional right of a resident of Severodvinsk, Nikolai Zamyatin, to the inviolability of the home for 90 days.

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    The head of the RUFSB in the Arkhangelsk region, Colonel D. Morkovskikh, makes a decision on the inspection of Nikolai Zamyatin's apartment.

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    Search Case initiated Art. 282.2 (1) Elderly

    In Severodvinsk, searches have been carried out since early morning at at least nine addresses: in the homes of Igor Shaman, Sergey Potylitsyn, Sergey Antropov, Oleg Vokhtomin, Vlad Shchegolkov, Viktor Kuznetsov, Alexander Okon, Oleg Novikov and Vladimir Teterin. At another address, the believer is not at home. 24-year-old Andrey Maksimovich is taken from his workplace, after interrogation he is brought home and searched in the presence of his wife and 3-year-old child.

    The searches are carried out by FSB investigators P. Yuriev, I. Kozodubov, I. Mironov, D. Fedotov and others. About 20 conscripts were involved as witnesses. Believers report the seizure of equipment, personal records, information carriers, Bibles and religious literature; In some cases, operatives break down the doors. The searches were sanctioned by the Severodvinsk City Court.

    Sergey Antropov, 34, Sergey Potylitsyn, 37, Vladimir Teterin, 61, Vlad Shchegolkov, 25, and Oleg Novikov, 44, are interrogated by the FSB in Arkhangelsk. There they are directly told that the goal of law enforcement officers is to stop the activities of Jehovah's Witnesses, but they do not object to each individually professing his faith.

    A criminal case has been opened under the article "organization of the activities of an extremist organization" (part 1 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The suspects are Vladimir Teterin and Sergey Potylitsyn (later another suspect is Andrei Maksimovich).

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    Interrogation Recognizance agreement

    Sergey Potylitsyn on the summons comes to the FSB for interrogation, which is conducted by investigator P. Yuriev. He takes a written undertaking not to leave Potylitsyn.

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    Search Interrogation Elderly Art. 282.2 (1)
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    Investigator Yuriev extends the investigation until August 13, 2019.

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    Interrogation

    Interrogation of Sergey Potylitsyn in the Arkhangelsk FSB.

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    Interrogation Tapping and hidden surveillance

    Sergey Potylitsyn, Andrey Maksimovich and Elena Mishneva come for interrogation at the FSB, where it turns out that the case involves a hidden video recording made in the house of one of the believers at the moment when she had guests. When asked by the lawyer who made the recording, the investigator replies: "Our employee."

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    Arrest of personal belongings

    The judge of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk, Yuri Popov, arrests Sergey Potylitsyn's funds to ensure a possible future fine in a criminal case. Bank cards and accounts, to which salaries and pensions were received, were also arrested from Vladimir Teterin and Andrey Maksimovich.

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    Arrest of personal belongings

    The judge of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk, Sergey Yarmolyuk, seizes two cars of Sergey Potylitsyn. This means that the believer cannot make transactions, such as selling their cars. The judge explains that the purpose of the arrest is to ensure a possible future fine.

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    Interrogation

    Potylitsyn on the call of the investigator comes for interrogation.

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    Interrogation

    Vladimir Teterin was again interrogated as a suspect.

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    Interrogation

    Another interrogation of Andrei Maksimovich.

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    Court of Appeal

    The Arkhangelsk Regional Court, in two sessions chaired by Judge Alexandra Kocheburova and Judge Alexei Loskutov, rejects Sergey Potylitsyn's appeals against the arrest of his cars and bank accounts.

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    Case returned to investigator

    Investigator P. A. Yuriev suspends the preliminary investigation in the criminal case against three believers because of the impossibility of their participation in the case (paragraph 3 of part 1 of article 208 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation).

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    Case dismissed Elderly

    By the decision of the Deputy Head of the Second Department for the Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Arkhangelsk Region and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Colonel of Justice D.V. Vereshchagin, the criminal case and criminal prosecution No. 11907110001000008 against V.A. Teterin, A.N. Maksimovich and S.A. Potylitsyn were terminated due to the lack of corpus delicti.

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    Case dismissed Expert conclusions Art. 282.2 (1)
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