Photo: Valentyn Osadchuk in the courtroom (2019)
Photo: Valentyn Osadchuk in the courtroom (2019)
On April 16, 2019, the judge of the Frunzensky District Court of Vladivostok, Sergey Olkhovsky, arrested the car and money of Valentin Osadchuk, accused of participating "in an extremist community" for his religious beliefs. On the same day, it became known about the completion of the preliminary investigation and the transition of the case to the stage of familiarization of the accused with the case materials.
The court argued the decision on the seizure of property by the fact that Osadchuk is accused of acts for which the court can impose a fine of 400 thousand to 800 thousand rubles and confiscate property. According to the law, confiscation of property is possible only if it is obtained "as a result of committing crimes" provided for by the "extremist" article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. How Osadchuk could get a car and money during the service, neither the investigator nor the court explained. (According to FSB investigator O. Tunyk, Valentin Osadchuk's extremism consisted in the fact that he participated in worship services of believers - he read the Bible, prayed, sang religious songs and talked with fellow believers on biblical topics.) Before his arrest, Osadchuk earned his living as an individual entrepreneur and worked as a sales manager.
Nevertheless, in order to ensure the execution of a possible sentence, the judge arrested a Nissan Presage car (born in 2001) and 26 thousand rubles seized during a search of the believer's house. It was decided to "transfer the money for storage" to the FEO of the FSB of Russia in the Primorsky Territory.
Valentin Osadchuk is under house arrest, the court replaced this measure of restraint with his detention in a pre-trial detention center, where he spent 275 days.
