Igor Puzanov
Lawyers
1975-12-15
Imprisoned
Moscow
Biography
A former official of the State Construction Committee, he moved to Moscow from Sochi, where a fraud case was brought against him. Sick of schizophrenia, like some of his relatives. Creator of the opposition website putinapodsud.org.
In July 2012, his lawyers found Puzanov at Sheremetyevo airport accompanied by police officers. Puzanov was handcuffed and beaten. He said that he was detained in the Solnechnogorsk town and taken to the Kryukovo police station, where FSB officers arrived, including an investigator from the Yaroslavl Region FSB. According to Puzanov, they offered him to confess that he was the leader of a certain revolutionary
A former official of the State Construction Committee, he moved to Moscow from Sochi, where a fraud case was brought against him. Sick of schizophrenia, like some of his relatives. Creator of the opposition website putinapodsud.org.
In July 2012, his lawyers found Puzanov at Sheremetyevo airport accompanied by police officers. Puzanov was handcuffed and beaten. He said that he was detained in the Solnechnogorsk town and taken to the Kryukovo police station, where FSB officers arrived, including an investigator from the Yaroslavl Region FSB. According to Puzanov, they offered him to confess that he was the leader of a certain revolutionary movement and said that in this case they would put him in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention centre and would not take him to Krasnodar Krai. Puzanov said he feared he would be killed in Sochi because he accused local law enforcement officials of corruption. Puzanov was taken to hospital from the airport line department.
On 3 July 2013, he was detained and during a search, components of improvised explosive devices and instructions for their manufacture, 16 mobile phones, a radio station tuned to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs and a radio-controlled model of a helicopter were found. He confessed that he had planned to attack Putin's motorcade using the model helicopter. At the trial, he retracted this testimony, saying that he gave it so that he would not be taken to Krasnodar Krai, where he was sentenced in absentia to 3 years 6 months in a general regime colony. On 2 April 2015, he was sentenced to nine and a half years in a strict regime colony.
He was released in 2022, but was immediately sent for compulsory treatment.