Moscow Meshchansky District Court received a petition to choose a restraining measure in the form of detention in relation to a certain Timofeeva SV, transmits RBC. The investigation wanted to arrest him. Timofeev was put on the international wanted list.
Date of birth – March 18, 1989 – coincides with the birth date of photographer-blogger Svetlana Timofeeva, who was detained in Albania this week. (also known as Lana Sator). He and two other foreigners (Mikhail Zorin and Fyodor Mikhailovich A.-citizens of Russia and Ukraine) tried to enter the Molot military facility in Albania she. The Albanian Ministry of Defense said the soldiers who tried to detain them were injured and taken to hospital.
“A restraining measure was chosen against the accused Timofeeva Svetlana Valerievna in the form of detention in absentia for a period of two months from the moment she was detained on the territory of the Russian Federation or from the moment she was transferred to law enforcement agencies. The press service of the court said that in the event of extradition or deportation to the territory of the Russian Federation, or at the moment of detention of Timofeeva in the territory of the Russian Federation, ”the Russian Federation.
Timofeev passes under paragraph “a” of part 2 of Art. 283.1 of the Criminal Code (the unlawful acquisition by a group of persons of information constituting a state secret, through kidnapping, deception, blackmail, coercion, threats of violence or any other unlawful means). The maximum penalty under this article is imprisonment for up to eight years. Judge Irina Akkuratova will hear the case. In 2019, Seventh Studio considered its case. He returned the case to the prosecutor’s office due to the contradictions that emerged after the financial examination.
Svetlana’s friend Maria said in a conversation with socialbites.ca that the Albanian court had decided to detain Timofeeva and other defendants during the investigation.
He learned from the media that his friend was arrested in absentia, he has no details about the state secret case. In her August 22 broadcast, Maria wrote that “Lana Sator is not a spy” and talked about Timofeeva’s work in the industrial tourism genre, which includes shooting on abandoned sites, including factories.
“We have no direct affiliation with Lana or the lawyers or the men who defended her. There was a case yesterday over the choice of a restraining measure, where Lana and the men who were with her were placed in custody for the duration of the case. We know this for sure, we watched the trial online and spoke with the father of one of the detainees. we talked,” Maria told socialbites.ca.
Timofeeva is known under the pseudonym Lana Sator. A photographer who has photographed Soviet heritage sites, abandoned buildings and enclosed spaces for many years. She has over 250 thousand followers on social media.
In 2011, the “top secret” organization NPO Energomash in Khimki infiltrated. The photographer, along with other violators, went to the premises of the facility without encountering a single guard.
They visited several workshops, including a test. The release of the classified photos angered the Federal Security Service and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, which oversees the defense industry. Rogozin later said that “sleepy cats and arrogant rats” should be held accountable for infiltrating the business.
In August 2018, after the publication of Timofeeva’s Instagram (the company that owns Meta was considered an extremist organization), the Investigative Committee promised to check the information about the abandoned police and FMS department in Moscow. There the photographer found documents that were not removed or destroyed when the department was closed.
“The remaining cubic meters of documents, copies of various certificates, boxes with old domestic and foreign passports of Moscow citizens, criminal and administrative cases, registration cards for young hooligans, personal files of department employees and much more,” he wrote. Later, the girl said that the documents were released by the police overnight after the photos were released.
spy photographers in Albania
It was learned on 21 August that three foreigners were detained at a military facility near the city of Gramsci. Facility manager Lorenz Zani told the Albanian Daily News that three people approached the facility but were spotted by the military. As a result of the collision, one of the violators used a “spray” against the army.
“Three citizens with Russian and Ukrainian passports tried to enter the territory of the enterprise,” the Albanian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
The officers guarding the facility reacted immediately, but added that two soldiers were injured when they tried to stop the three foreign citizens. The defense ministry added that the condition of the soldiers is stable.
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said the three detainees were “suspected of espionage” at the time.
In addition, the Albanian military reported that one of the detainees, Mikhail Zorin, tried to take pictures at the facility. It was he who used the “spray” against the soldiers, trying to escape. According to Reuters, the rest of the perpetrators were detained recently. Reuters announced that during the “communist rule” the plant produced Russian-style AK-47 rifles. According to the Albanian Ministry of Defense, the business now “provides manufacturing services to the defense industry.” Albania has been a member of NATO since 2009.
“Doubtful and far away”
Russian Ambassador to Albania Mikhail Afanasiev said in a meeting with TASS on August 22 that he saw political motives in the public statements regarding the detention of Russians in Albania. The accusation of espionage seems “too far” to him.
“It is worrying that the incident has received a sensational response, not only from Albanian but also from Albanian leaders. <…>
The most embarrassing thing is that, without waiting for the results of the investigation, the conclusions of the prosecutor’s office, the incident itself is described as a fact of espionage and the participants in the incident are called “agents of Russia”. demands the harshest punishment.
Moreover, all this has already been expressed in statements at the highest level. “There is a feeling that an appropriate basis has been laid for a future decision,” he said.
Afanasiev noted that the Albanian authorities did not comply with the provisions of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, and in particular, they did not provide information about the detention of Russians as of August 22. He added that a note was sent to the Albanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the prosecutor’s office asking them to provide the necessary information and to arrange a meeting between the consul and the detained Russians.
“It seems to me a dubious and forced charge of espionage, because two Russians and a Ukrainian citizen were detained in a business area that has not been operating since the 90s of last year, this is simply a territory protected by the Ministry of Defense. If it were not for the outrageous behavior of Russian citizens, it would probably be nothing more than petty hooliganism.. But now the Prime Minister’s statement says it’s about the use of chemical weapons. A young man, who was the assistant of the lady leading the incident, sprayed gas from a spray can in the eyes of the soldier guarding the facility, and then allegedly injured him with a military knife. Yesterday, a criminal case was opened simultaneously under three articles of the penal code – espionage, assault on a soldier on duty, use of sharp weapons, All this leads to up to 10 years in prison.”said the diplomat.