Center "E" employee Ivan Repin became notorious for beating and torturing environmental and anti-war activists. As a result, he was caught committing corruption. Now he complains of being tortured and beaten by former colleagues.
According to the Cheka-OGPU, on November 13, the Kirovsky District Court of Yaroslavl will begin hearing a criminal case involving large-scale bribery, abuse of office, and abuse of power. Ivan Repin, the former head of the Yaroslavl Center "E" counter-extremist organization department, is accused of this. Joining him in the dock is former Center "E" detective Maxim Gagarin.
This criminal case is notable because Repin, who in 2022 "on duty" tortured Yaroslavl lawyer and environmental activist Andrei Akimov (accused of fabricating information about the Russian Armed Forces, pictured), now complains of beatings at the hands of his former colleagues. According to Repin, police officers Anton Kovalenko and Artem Fedyukin beat him and strangled him with a rag until he lost consciousness during his arrest. The defendant subsequently suffered temporary hearing loss. Kovalenko and Fedyukin are mentioned in a complaint alleging the torture of other detainees in August of this year. A criminal case against them has not yet been opened.
Repin, who works for Eshnik, believes that the criminal case against him is "directly related to his participation in investigative operations to detain a local crime boss" with ties to law enforcement. The police officer's brother, Police Colonel Alexander Repin, who served as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Yaroslavl Region, is also under investigation. The colonel is charged with attempted illegal production, sale, or shipment of narcotics or their analogues (Part 3 of Article 30 and Part 5 of Article 228.1 of the Russian Criminal Code).
