Vasily Fedorov

A resident of the city of Volgograd, formerly a senior police lieutenant, worked as a masseur. He was the administrator of the Telegram channel "Police Ombudsman"; after the arrest of the channel's founder Vladimir Vorontsov, he created the channel "Police Ombudsman 2".

A criminal case was initiated after Fedorov, together with Yevgeny Moiseyev and Irina Andina, released the film "Saving the Police Ombudsman". The authors of the video told about a plan to expose the investigation, under which Andina tried to infiltrate the Moscow police's own security department. Vorontsov's supporters decided to deliberately add another episode to his case to document the falsification on the part of the investigation.

Andina and Moiseyev reported their plan in Vorontsov's trial in October 2021. Andina stated that the operatives persuaded her to give false testimony against Vorontsov in exchange for material benefits and reinstatement. She submitted as evidence audio recordings of her conversations with the operatives.

As a result, on July 18, 2022, the prosecutor dropped some of the charges against the "police ombudsman", including the episode with Andina. A month and a half later, Fedorov, Moiseyev and Andina were detained and sent to the pre-trial detention centre, where they remained for more than a year.

On October 3, 2023, the Tverskoy District Court assigned real sentences to all three

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