independent investigation 04.02.2002 (2002)

"Bryansk Pinkertons" (Doubles).

In May 1999, 62-year-old retired officer V. S. Leonov was detained in his apartment by Bryansk police officers and placed in a pretrial detention center.

Only a week later, his family learned that he had been arrested on suspicion of a double murder committed in the city of Kolomna.

Leonov denied his guilt, stated that he had never been to Kolomna and tried in vain to see a lawyer for three months.

It is unknown how much more time he would have spent in prison if the real killer had not voluntarily turned himself in to the police in August - V. S. Leonov, a resident of Kolomna, who had hacked to death two of his drinking buddies with an axe a year before.

As it turned out, the Bryansk "Pinkertons" were misled only by the fact that the full names of the wanted criminal and the retired officer were completely identical.

It turned out that Kolomna Leonov was detained at the crime scene, confessed to everything, but was released on bail due to his disability and advanced age.

He was put on the wanted list by mistake, since he was not hiding from the court at all, but simply spent a long time in the city hospital.

This "mistake" of the police resulted in the fact that officer Leonov, who had suffered a stroke shortly before his arrest, spent 3 months in prison and soon died.

The officer's widow filed a lawsuit against the officials she believed to be guilty of her husband's death, and won the case.

According to the court's decision, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the prosecutor's office must pay her 2,000 rubles each for moral damages.

However, this decision has not yet been implemented, and the guilty parties have even been promoted.

Moreover, the Bryansk police have begun to settle scores with people who supported the widow in court.

Recently, one of the main witnesses, former naval officer A.D. Kolomiets, was brutally beaten by police officers and placed in a sobering-up center under a far-fetched pretext.

Sheshnra-Leonova Liliya, the widow of an illegally arrested man, talks about her husband's arrest and going through the authorities.

Video: Employees of the address bureau in the office, police officers in the station, cells for prisoners, a sign "Deputy Prosecutor of the City of Bryansk Lachko Gennady", the pre-trial detention center building, certificates and a death certificate of Leonov.

In the studio, Sheshnra-Leonova L. talks about communication with police agencies that did not notify the widow of Leonov V.S. Danilov Evgeny about the article of the Criminal Code on notifying the next of kin about the reasons for the arrest and the location of the suspect.

Sheshnra-Leonova L. about Leonov V.S.'s attempts to prove his innocence, the refusal to provide a lawyer, the moral state of Leonov V.S., and the conditions of detention in the pre-trial detention center.

Kolomoets Alexander on recognizing the actions of the police and prosecutor's office as illegal, the amounts of compensation for moral damage that were not received, and not recognizing Leonov V.S. as a victim of arrest.

Seliverstov Vyacheslav on the lack of legal mechanisms in Russian legislation for recognizing victims of arrest.

A viewer on the information blockade of Leonov V.S.'s family and the secrecy of the investigation.

Yakovlev Nikolay on the lack of the term "victim of arrest" in legislation.

A story about Leonov V.S. being in a pretrial detention center cell.

Safonov Valery, a duty officer at the Kolomna pretrial detention center, on Leonov V.S.'s demands and complaints.

Video: the building, cells, and corridors of the pretrial detention center.

Sheshnra-Leonova L. on the material compensations awarded to her and Leonov V.S. by the courts.

Viewers answer the question of how much you would value one day innocently spent in a prison cell.

Levkin Aleksey talks about the price of one day innocently spent in a prison cell.

Kolomoets A. on Leonov V.S.'s heart disease acquired in a prison cell and the doctors' conclusion.

Yakovlev N. on the Prosecutor General's instruction to initiate a criminal case on the fact of Leonov V.S.'s arrest.

Seliverstov V. on the failure to initiate a criminal case due to the negligence of Lachko Gennady and official apologies.

Kolomoets A. on the promotion of the prosecutor's office employee Lachko G., to whom the late Leonov V.S. appealed.

Levkin A. on the work of the police, which did not check Leonov V.S.'s passport data.

Isakov Nikolay brings a public apology on behalf of the Bryansk City Department of Internal Affairs.

Isakov N. speaks about incorrectly completed search documents that led to the arrest and death of Leonov V.S. The program's story dedicated to the work of pretrial detention center employees.

Video: corridors, pretrial detention center cells, distribution of food to prisoners.

Safonov Valery on the mistake of the pretrial detention center duty officer when checking documents.

Levkin A. on statistics of innocently arrested people.

Levkin A. talks about actions in case of mistaken arrest and written appeals to employees of supervisory authorities.

Kolomoets A., Levkin A., Seliverstov V. on Leonov V.S.'s appeal with complaints to the prosecutor's office.

Leonov Aleksandr on internal regulations in cells, document verification in pre-trial detention centers and informing prisoners.

Kolomoets A. on police actions during Leonov V.S.'s arrest.

Danilov E. and Litvinov I. on notification to relatives after Leonov V.S.'s arrest and who should have done it.

A viewer asks what the prosecutor was guided by when signing the arrest documents.

Litvinov I. on the investigation of Leonov V.S.'s case by the Voskresensk city prosecutor's office.

Danilov E. on the new article in the Criminal Code on notifying relatives of those arrested.

Sheshnra-Leonova L. believes that her husband's arrest shortened his life.