Russian court orders police chief Yury Shibayev detained
Shibayev is accused of organizing a gang that kidnapped men to force them to fight in Ukraine. The court ordered him held until 2 January while the case proceeds.
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Shibayev is accused of organizing a gang that kidnapped men to force them to fight in Ukraine. The court ordered him held until 2 January while the case proceeds.
A court ordered Yury Shibayev, a district police chief in Russia’s Ivanovo region, held in pretrial detention until 2 January. He is accused of organizing a gang that kidnapped men to force them to fight in Ukraine.
Shibayev has led the police department in the Komsomolsky district since April 2024. The court issued the order on 12 November.
He faces charges of kidnapping, fraud and unauthorized access to computer data. Shibayev denied the charges and declined to testify, local outlet IvanovoNews said, as cited by The Moscow Times. Investigators have not disclosed details of his alleged role in the scheme.
IvanovoNews said the investigation involves 15 people and at least 7 victims. The detention order holds Shibayev while the case proceeds; it is not a finding of guilt.
The outlet Vyorstka previously said at least 6 men had disappeared from Ivanovo villages since fall 2024. It said some were lured with offers of paid work and others taken from their homes by force, then made to sign contracts with Russia’s Defense Ministry. The men later turned up at a military unit in the Leningrad region.
It is unclear whether those disappearances are connected to Shibayev’s case.
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