A court in St. Petersburg sentenced Konstantin Golubev, a former agent of the criminal investigation department of the city’s Vasileostrovskiy district, to two years in a penal colony for abuse of power. He was found guilty of transferring information about opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s fellow travelers from an official database, reported in his telegram channel, the United Press Service of the St. Petersburg Courts.
In Golubev’s file on the Vasileostrovskiy District Court website declared that the meeting on his case took place on the morning of March 2, but the outcome has not yet been put on the board. The previous meeting was supposed to take place on February 22, but it was postponed.
According to investigators, Golubev, who held the position of detective for combating property crimes of the OID of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Vasileostrovskiy district, in September 2020 asked his colleague, who had access to the Rozysk-Magistral PTK, to obtain the personal data of passengers of two flights and ticket buyers.
PTK “Rozysk-Magistral” is an information search system that allows law enforcement agencies to identify wanted persons among ticket buyers and passengers.
Colleague Golubev, as noted in the filing, felt he was “engaging in information gathering in the interests of the service.” The data he extracted from the PTK “Rozysk-Magistral” “was a personal secret of citizens of the Russian Federation.” Golubev, according to investigators, handed them over to a person identified as Mr.
Fontanka complaints that journalist Miailė Maciulitė asked Golubev for information. According to the publication, these were the data of the passenger who sat on the plane next to Navalny, as well as the passenger “Pevchikh Maria Konstantinovna, born in 1987”.
During the debate, the prosecutor asked to sentence Golubev to three years and ten months in a penal colony and to deprive him of the right to work in the civil service for two years. The accused pleaded not guilty and asked to be acquitted, pointing to the absence of corpus delicti in his actions. After the verdict was delivered, he was taken into custody in the courtroom.
