“On Monday, August 30, officers of the Federal Penitentiary Service, the Federal Security Service of Russia, the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee in Moscow, with the support of special units of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in Moscow, conducted searches in the capital's SIZO-1 and SIZO-3, during which they seized a significant amount of illegal correspondence between the AUE participants and others. prohibited items, which are material evidence of illegal activity, "- leads TASS statement.

It is noted that law enforcement officers collected information about the structure of the cell, identified the leader of the movement and sources of funding from freedom.

Earlier it became known about the initiation of a criminal case after the discovery of members of the AUE movement in pre-trial detention center-1.

* The International Public Movement "Prisoner Criminal Unity" (AUE) has been recognized as extremist and banned on the territory of Russia by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated 17.08.2020.