The Security Service, the National Police, and the Prosecutor General's Office have заочно (in absentia) served a notice of suspicion to the head of the Russian torture chamber where Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna was killed. This was reported by the SBU press service, writes UNN.
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This refers to Vyacheslav Perevozkin, who since July 22, 2024, has held the position of head of Federal State Institution Pre-trial Detention Center No. 3 of the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Perm Krai of the Russian Federation.
In September 2024, Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna and Yevhen Matveyev, the mayor of the Dniprorudne territorial community of Vasylivka district, Zaporizhzhia region, were killed in the aforementioned torture chamber.
According to the case materials, the victims' deaths resulted from cruel treatment, torture, and failure to provide necessary medical care, which was in direct causal connection with the actions and inactions of the pre-trial detention center's leadership.
As the investigation established, Perevozkin issued criminal orders and deliberately allowed the use of physical and psychological violence against Ukrainians.
Ukrainian law enforcement officers have documented other facts of torture, beatings, humiliation of human dignity, illegal "interrogations," creation of inhumane conditions of detention, as well as intentional failure to provide proper medical care to illegally detained civilians. Such treatment was systemic, deliberate, and repressive.
Based on SBU materials, Vyacheslav Perevozkin has been заочно (in absentia) served with a notice of suspicion under the following articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
- Part 1 of Article 438 (cruel treatment of the civilian population, committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy);
- Part 2 of Article 438 (cruel treatment of the civilian population, combined with intentional murder, committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy).
He faces life imprisonment for committing these crimes.