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Vladimir Osekkin says he studied law because he wanted to enter law enforcement. To be a good sheriff, he tells me. But after being vilified several times by the Russian judicial system, he was falsely accused of murder until the police found the right person, and years later, the car sales empire he had built was in Russia’s capital. He said he was shaken when he got too big for profit.
He describes both experiences as horrifying and violent. Since then, Osekkin has devoted his life to exposing torture in Russian prisons. According to him, the abuses are so high that many inmates find a bloody and uncertain future prospects on the Ukrainian frontline, and the Russian Defense Minister sent them to prison to strengthen their ranks in the military. It’s eye-catching and attractive enough to be recruiter’s bait.
“In this 21st century concentration camp you can be humiliated, beaten and raped. You risk losing your hands and your eyes if you use outdated equipment for more than 12 hours a day from 7am to 11pm, or at least more,” said via Zoom from his home in France. told Fox News. “They desperately want to get out of the torture dungeon. Many don’t realize they can be killed in a week or two.”
Osechkin runs the human rights organization Gulagu.net. He himself is one of Russia’s most wanted men, having circulated a dramatic torture video from a Saratov prison and spreading reports of dissatisfaction inside Russia’s security service, the FSB. It is said that.
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Russia has said it has filed a fraud case against Osechkin. Fraud accusations in Russia, many say, are lavished on anyone the Kremlin has its sights on, like Alexei Navalny.
Osekkin calls the active recruitment of Russian prisoners of war to work on the front lines of the war an act of cynicism. According to his sources, he takes tips from various people, including prisoners’ families – these efforts have recently stepped up.
The Russian army is losing significant numbers, and it takes years to train minesweepers, so the military needs engineers. According to Osechkin, Russia is also looking for men to send as a sort of bait for Ukrainian soldiers. and form a “killer brigade” to shoot, mutilate and mutilate “enemies”.
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Osechkin says the number of people receiving such offers declined once they began to realize the fact that inmates could be used as cannon fodder. He believes an infamous man, sometimes referred to as “Putin’s Chef,” has come to patrol prisons. This has not been confirmed, but Osekkin wasn’t the only one to hear the reports.
An independent Mediazona outlet has heard it from several inmates. “Chef” is a former prisoner himself. Evgeny Prigozhin, who became a billionaire after being involved in many businesses, from catering to running the mercenary group Wagner, is said to be close to the President of Russia.
“Apparently, like an ace, like a trump card, Putin pulled out Prigogine and sent him personally to meet with prisoners,” said Osekkin, adding that Prigogine could easily be marketed, ” I myself was once in prison and now I am recruiting you.
Mediazona interviewed an inmate who allegedly heard that Prigozhin would offer “pardons and money.” Also, at a meeting with recruiters, one inmate recalled being told, “We are interested in murderers and robbers.”
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Osekkin, on the other hand, is not concerned that prisoners are sent to death with promises of large sums of money, fame, honor, or dreams of escape. He also believes that the whole idea of telling already violent murderers and thieves to take up arms again is completely irresponsible and even reprehensible.
“Instead of correcting these people,” says Osekkin. It will bring more danger to society,” he said. I ask how all this information managed to get out of the cell and through the barbed wire of Russian prisons.
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“Vladimir Putin and his publicist are trying to construct a myth that he is omnipotent and has an ultra-totalitarian system.In fact, this is a mafia system.And like any other mafia And people are mostly interested in money and corruption,” he said, adding that it’s not the only one. “Many people in the system are against the war itself. Not all of the hundreds of thousands of people who work in the federal prison system love Putin. , not all are ready to take part in transgressive crimes: humanity and war crimes.”