In Moscow, lawyer Igor Popovsky was arrested in a particularly large-scale fraud case (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code), telegraph channels close to the security forces reported. “a base” and “112”As well as the investigation committee (which did not mention the name of the detainee).
According to the Investigative Committee, in June 2022, the lawyer concluded an agreement with a Moscow resident accused of fraud, and in April 2025 he convinced her that in exchange for a financial reward he could stop the criminal prosecution, after he “exercised his influence over officials in the prosecutor’s office and the judicial system.”
The Investigative Committee claims that Popovsky received six million rubles from a Muscovite, but had “no real opportunity” to influence the court’s decision and “did not intend to transfer the money to any officials.”
Telegram channel “112” claims that Popovsky pleaded guilty.
Igor Popovsky defended anarchist Ruslan Siddiqui in the case of railway bombing and drone attack on Diaghielvo Airport, Oleg Arkhipenkov and other defendants in the case of mass riots on Bolotnaya Square, nationalist Alexander Botkin (Belov) and member of the Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists (BORN) Yuri Tikhomirov, recalls Mediazona.