Oleg Kashintsev
Oleg Kashintsev, born 1981, Moscow. Charges: Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code (Dissemination of false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government…); “Oleg Kashintsev's case of "fakes" about the activity of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine”. Sentence (January 27, 2023): 8 years' imprisonment in absentia, with ban on administering social media accounts and holding positions in… Status: not in Russia.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Law enforcement officers · Anti-war cases, Cases against "foreign agents"
Sentence
8 years
imprisonment in absentia, with ban on administering social media accounts and holding positions in law-enforcement agencies during 4 years, and with deprivation of his special rank of police major
Upheld May 16, 2023
Charges
- Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code — Dissemination of false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government agencies, or mercenaries (based on political, ideological, racial, national or religious hatred or enmity, or on grounds of hatred or enmity in relation to any social group)
Full wording of the charges
The case was opened on the basis of two social media posts made in March: one with a video of an interrogation of a Russian pilot who had been shot down in Ukraine, and another with a collage of photos of Putin and Hitler and a red equal sign, accompanied by a caption criticising the war in Ukraine and the actions of the Russian president.
Latest event
March 15, 2024 — added to the register of “foreign agents”
Timeline
· Added to the register of “foreign agents”
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 8 years
· Persecution begins
Oleg Kashintsev's case of "fakes" about the activity of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine
Criminal case
Oleg Kashintsev's case of "fakes" about the activity of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine
- Case number
- 01-0154/2023 (01-0652/2022)
Thematic group: Anti-war case
Details and sources
Full summary
Former policeman from Yaroslavl. He is currently outside Russia. On 9 March 2022, a case was opened against him for disseminating knowingly false information about the Russian Armed Forces. In May 2022, he was declared wanted and arrested in absentia. Later it became known that his bank accounts were seized. Interpol refused to fulfil the Russian Federation's request for Kashintsev's extradition. On 27 January 2023, the court sentenced him in absentia to eight years in prison and deprivation of rank. In March 2024, the former policeman was included in the register of "foreign agents".
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Preventive measures
- arrest in absentia
Other people prosecuted under Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.