On June 26, three employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Rossoshansky district were detained in the Voronezh Region, who may be involved in the torture of a detainee, ASTRA found. They are: 23-year-old police sergeant Danila Goncharov, 25-year-old Nikita Ignatenok and 37-year-old former police lieutenant Andrei Gelunenko. The latter resigned of his own accord three months after the incident.
According to sources, a local resident, Alexei N., filed a police report. In November 2024, a man was detained and taken to the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Rossoshansky district for “minor hooliganism”. There he was taken to one of the classrooms, where he was psychologically pressured, beaten and tortured with a taser in order to force him to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The detainee did not sign the contract. A day later, he was diagnosed with burns on various parts of his body, as well as numerous bruises and abrasions.
The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on abuse of office only a month later, in December 2024, however, against “unidentified persons.”
According to ASTRA, on June 26, Goncharov, Ignatenok and Gelunenko were interrogated as suspects. However, they have not yet been officially charged.
