“Twice I was put in a punishment cell, without even explaining the reasons, three times I was transferred to different cells and my clothes, clothes and medicines were lost,” Boykov told members of the PMC who visited him in the pre-trial detention center.

Boykov believes that in this way they are trying to put pressure on him.

The PMC noted that due to anti-epidemiological measures, the commission was deprived of the opportunity to fully exercise public control over the rights of prisoners in the UFSIN pre-trial detention center in Moscow, including the placement of prisoners in punishment cells.

“The other day, members of the commission began talking with prisoners in Moscow pre-trial detention centers in short-term meeting rooms through glass,” the source said.

In March of this year, the investors of the bankrupt Mezhtrastbank were blocked in their own apartment in Moscow and handed over to the police officers who were wanted for more than two years by the former president of this credit institution, Igor Boykov.

The ex-banker is accused of organizing a criminal group that stole more than 2.5 billion rubles from Mezhtrastbank.

According to the investigation, Boykov and his accomplices issued obviously bad loans both to individuals and fictitious firms controlled by the former president of Mezhtrastbank.

At the end of 2019, three of his accomplices were sentenced to sentences ranging from 2 years 10 months to 4.5 years.