on the return to the prosecutor of the case against members of the world’s largest hacker group “REVIL”, whose high-profile arrest in January 2022 was reported to the Russian FSB. The materials were again returned to the St. Petersburg Garrison Court.
Earlier, this court indicated that the investigation of this criminal case was carried out in gross violation of the rules of jurisdiction, since one of the defendants, Zayats, was a military serviceman.
The incompetence of the Prosecutor General’s Office and the influence of the employees of the Central Investigation Bureau of the FSB of Russia, who actively accompanied the criminal case, led precisely to this violation.
In March 2022, lawyer Evgeny Krylov, defending group member Dmitry Korotaev, contacted the General Prosecutor’s Office addressed to Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov with a complaint about a violation of the rules of jurisdiction of a criminal case to the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and asked to transfer the criminal case to the Main Military Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia. However, the Prosecutor General’s Office stated in its response that Zayats was dismissed from military service on January 12, 2022, and that he committed the crime “not on the territory of a military unit.” The Prosecutor General’s Office followed the lead of the FSB of the Russian Federation, to whose tune it has been “dancing” for a long time.
However, the St. Petersburg Garrison Military Court failed to convince the Prosecutor General’s Office of such a very free interpretation of the legislation.
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