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Leonid Razvozzhayev surrenders of his own accord

Under the petition of the Central Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee in the process of investigating a criminal case launched on the results of the check into facts showed in the documentary Anatomy of a Protest-2, Leonid Razvozzhayev is put into custody as a pre-trial restraining measure.

We remind that on 18 October Razvozzhayev was put on a federal wanted list. On 21 October he personally addressed to the Central Investigations Directorate and informed that he wanted to surrender voluntarily. He stated in details how he, Sergey Udaltsov, Konstantin Lebedev and other persons were preparing mass riots in the Russian Federation and about involvement of the said persons in mass riots which took place on 6 May 2012 on Bolotnaya Ploshchad in Moscow. The voluntary surrender also states that Givi Targamadze financed those mass riots. All the statements of the document will be carefully checked.

Razvozzhayev in presence of his lawyer was interrogated as a suspect. In the near future he will be charged with a crime under part 1 of article 30, part 1 of article 212 of the RF Criminal Code (preparing for mass riots).

A notification of his aide arrest was sent to State Duma Deputy Ilya Ponovaryov, in accordance with paragraph 9 of article 37 of the Federal Law “On the status of a member of Federation Council and status of a deputy of State Duma of the Federal Assmebly of the Russian Federation”.

The Central Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee have launched a pre-investigating check into Leonid Razvozzhayev’s claim that he was caught in Kiev and then tortured for two days. It should be pointed out however that being of sound mind as he wrote in his surrender document testified the details of preparing mass riots in the Russian Federation. Moreover, when he came to the pre-trial prison on 21 October, he was examined by a doctor who found no injuries. Razvozzhayev did not make any complaints about his health neither when he was admitted to the pre-trial prison, nor while he was put into custody.