Head of Russian torture chamber where Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was killed served with notice of suspicion

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), together with the National Police and the Office of the Prosecutor General, has collected evidence against Vyacheslav Perevozkin, head of a Russian prison where Ukrainian captives are tortured and killed.

Source: SSU; National Police of Ukraine; Office of the Prosecutor General

Details: Since 22 July 2024, Perevozkin has held the position of head of Federal State Institution Detention Centre No. 3 of the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service for Perm Krai of the Russian Federation.

An investigation has found that in September 2024, the Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna and Yevhen Matvieiev, the mayor of the Dniprorudne hromada of the Vasylivka district in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, were killed in this torture facility. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

The case materials state that the victims died as a result of cruel treatment, torture and failure to provide necessary medical assistance, directly related to the actions and inaction of the detention centre's management.

The investigation established that Perevozkin issued criminal orders and knowingly allowed the use of physical and psychological violence against Ukrainians.

Ukrainian law enforcement officers have also documented other instances of torture, beatings, humiliation of human dignity, unlawful "interrogations", the creation of inhumane detention conditions, as well as the deliberate failure to provide proper medical treatment to unlawfully detained civilians. Such behaviour was systematic, intentional and repressive in nature.
Based on SSU materials, Perevozkin has been served, in absentia, 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 prior conspiracy by a group of persons)

Part 2 of Article 438 (cruel treatment of the civilian population combined with intentional murder, committed by a group of persons acting in concert).

He faces life imprisonment for these crimes.

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