The Moscow Solntsevsky Court sentenced the former director, screenwriter and director of Yeralash Ilya Belostotsky to 14 years in prison in a strict regime colony in a pedophilia case. This has been reported DEA News” With reference to the Moscow prosecutor’s office.
The meeting took place behind closed doors as the case affected the interests of children and youth.
At first, the investigation accused Belostotsky of a softer article – about indecent acts against a child under 14 years old. Now we are talking about an act of a sexual nature, using the use of violence or the helpless state of the victim of the same age (point “b” of part 4 of article 132 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, from 12). up to 20 years in prison).
Belostotsky was arrested in October 2020. The decision has not yet entered into force and can be appealed.
From 2005 to 2014, Belostotsky worked as a production director for the children’s film magazine Yeralash. He is also the director of The Trail series. Since 2004, he is a member of the Union of Film Directors of Russia.
In November 2021, one of the volunteers of the international group for the detection of pedophiles in the Runet “Ethics Team” (disbanded several years ago, some of its activists cooperate with the Safe Internet League) in an interview with kp.ru said according to his information, about how Belostotsky met children.