"Today, September 16, 2020, in the morning in one of the cells of the pre-trial detention center-3 of the GUFSIN region, a convict born in 84 without signs of life was found, the preliminary cause of death is suicide," RIA Novosti reports.
As noted, the official and pre-investigation checks have begun, aimed at establishing all the circumstances of the incident.
Tesak received ten years in a maximum security penal colony in December 2018 for attacks on people he believed were drug traffickers.
He and other defendants in the case were accused of deliberately causing grievous bodily harm, robbery, robbery, hooliganism, damage to property, incitement to hatred and humiliation of human dignity.