MOSCOW: The Russian Investigative Committee announced that it started looking into suspected abuse of office by police officers that it sa...
MOSCOW: The Russian Investigative Committee announced that it started looking into suspected abuse of office by police officers that it said passed information to a Telegram-based news channel.
At the same time, the Telegram-based news outlet Baza said its editorial office has been subjected to a search. Investigative Committee officers detained Editor-in-Chief Gleb Trifonov, according to his lawyer Alexey Mikhalchik.
TASS has put together key facts about the situation.
Search of the office
- Baza said law enforcement officers searched its office.
- It also said regular and riot police came to the apartment of Editor-in-Chief Gleb Trifonov on Tuesday morning.
- The news outlet said it is unaware what set off the police action.
- The search of the editorial office is related to a case of abuse of office by police officers, a source said.
- Investigative Committee officers detained Trifonov, according to his lawyer.
- The lawyer said Trifonov’s procedural status is yet undetermined.
- According to the lawyer, the events are linked to a case of abuse of office by police officers.
- Investigative Committee officers also detained several other Baza employees and took them in for an interrogation, the outlet’s co-founder, Anatoly Suleimanov, told TASS.
Criminal investigation
- The Moscow office of the Russian Investigative Committee filed charges of abuse of office against certain police officers.
- According to the agency, investigators and operatives uncovered that restricted-access information had been leaked in the Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk and Belgorod regions.
- The leaked data then found its way to news posts on a channel residing on the Telegram messaging app.
- The police officers that abused their office by passing the information to third parties have been detained, according to Russian Interior Ministry Spokeswoman Irina Volk.
- A representative of a law enforcement agency told TASS that Baza was the recipient of the data.
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