Igor Puzanov
Igor Puzanov is listed as imprisoned, but other details in the same record do not agree:
- the end of imprisonment is recorded as January 1, 2022.
Igor Puzanov, born 1975, Moscow. Charges: Article 205 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Preparation for a terrorist attack); Article 205.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Assisting to or financing terrorist activities through an official position); Article 222 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Illicit trafficking in firearms or ammunition); “Case of Igor Puzanov”. Sentence (April 1, 2015): nine years' imprisonment in a strict regime colony.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Lawyers · Terrorism cases
Sentence
9 years 6 months
nine years' imprisonment in a strict regime colony
Upheld October 14, 2015
Charges
- Article 205 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Preparation for a terrorist attack
- Article 205.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Assisting to or financing terrorist activities through an official position
- Article 222 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Illicit trafficking in firearms or ammunition
- Article 223 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Manufacturing is understood as the creation of items specified by regulations without obtaining a license in the prescribed manner, where the items acquire the properties of firearms, ammunition, explosives, or explosive devices
Full wording of the charges
planned to drop explosives from a radio-controlled helicopter on a government motorcade on the Novy Arbat street in Moscow before making political demands on the country's leadership.
Latest event
November 20, 2015 — added to the rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
Timeline
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 9 years 6 months
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Persecution begins
Case of Igor Puzanov
Criminal case
Case of Igor Puzanov
Details and sources
Full summary
A former official of the State Construction Committee, he moved to Moscow from Sochi, where a fraud case was brought against him. Sick of schizophrenia, like some of his relatives. Creator of the opposition website putinapodsud.org.
In July 2012, his lawyers found Puzanov at Sheremetyevo airport accompanied by police officers. Puzanov was handcuffed and beaten. He said that he was detained in the Solnechnogorsk town and taken to the Kryukovo police station, where FSB officers arrived, including an investigator from the Yaroslavl Region FSB. According to Puzanov, they offered him to confess that he was the leader of a certain revolutionary movement and said that in this case they would put him in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention centre and would not take him to Krasnodar Krai. Puzanov said he feared he would be killed in Sochi because he accused local law enforcement officials of corruption. Puzanov was taken to hospital from the airport line department.
On 3 July 2013, he was detained and during a search, components of improvised explosive devices and instructions for their manufacture, 16 mobile phones, a radio station tuned to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs and a radio-controlled model of a helicopter were found. He confessed that he had planned to attack Putin's motorcade using the model helicopter. At the trial, he retracted this testimony, saying that he gave it so that he would not be taken to Krasnodar Krai, where he was sentenced in absentia to 3 years 6 months in a general regime colony. On 2 April 2015, he was sentenced to nine and a half years in a strict regime colony.
He was released in 2022, but was immediately sent for compulsory treatment.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 205 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.