The Soviet District Court of Vladivostok sentenced a deputy of the Legislative Assembly in Primorye to 13 years in a strict regime colony. This is stated in UK message. We are talking about a deputy from the Communist Party Artem Samsonovsaid the representative of the department “RIA News”.
Samsonov was charged under the article “other acts of a sexual nature using the helpless state of the victim, committed against a person under the age of 14” (clause “b” part 4 of article 132 of the Criminal Code). The maximum punishment under this article provides for up to 20 years of restriction of liberty.
“The evidence collected by the investigating authorities of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in the Primorsky Territory was recognized by the court as sufficient for issuing a guilty verdict to the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Primorsky Territory. The court found him guilty and sentenced him to 13 years in prison with a sentence to be served in a strict regime correctional colony, ”said the representative of the UK.
According to the investigation, on one of the days from June 1 to July 31, 2018, Samsonov, during a beach holiday, being at a recreation center near Lazurnaya Street in Vladivostok, while communicating with the 11-year-old son of his friend, “showed him an object of an intimate nature and brought him information about his purpose.
KP.Ru, 09/20/2022, “Primorsky deputy Artyom Samsonov was sentenced to 13 years as a strict man for molesting a child”: The story of the detention of Artem Samsonov dates back to November 17, 2021 – they say, back in 2018, a deputy, while relaxing in the popular Lazurnaya Bay (Shamora), showed an 11-year-old child an object resembling a dildo. On the 17th, when the skeletons were pulled out of the politician’s closet, SOBR officers searched his house, during which they allegedly found the same sex toy in the nightstand. […]
During the confrontation, the victim, who at that time was 14 years old, confirmed that in the summer of 2018, the politician allegedly showed him a dildo and told him what to do with it. Moreover, according to the boy, the man offered to swim naked together. Samsonov, in turn, claimed that he saw the child for the first time, but knew his father. As the defense shared, the boy’s father is a friend of that same Irina, and together with them the deputy rested more than once in the Azure Bay. — Inset K.ru
The criminal case against Samsonov was opened on November 17, 2021. On the same day the parliamentarian detained. The apartment where the deputy lived was searched. The parliamentarian himself denies his guilt.
After the arrest, Samsonov went on a hunger strike as a sign of disagreement with the accusations of the investigation, informed the lawyer of the deputy Natalya Kasilova. After that, according to her, his pressure jumped, he was called an ambulance. The man also became ill in court, from where he was taken away in an ambulance.
“Ren TV”, 09/20/2022, “Deputy from the Communist Party received 13 years in prison for pedophilia: details of the process”: Numerous witnesses are on the side of the prosecution, including the parents of the injured child. The beach where it all happened is a frequent resting place for the seaside communist. Eyewitnesses said that Samsonov and the company there constantly violated the rules of public order. Drinking alcohol, nude photos, ambiguous dress-up games. […]
The lawyers and the defendant himself throughout the process tried in every possible way to politicize the case of pedophilia. They even gathered pickets at the pre-trial detention center and the court, where people came with the same posters. The communist himself used each court session as a tribune. — Inset K.ru
NTV.Ru, 11/17/2021, “Candid photos of a Primorye communist deputy detained for pedophilia appeared on the Web”: According to investigators, during the weekend at one of the recreation centers, the suspect behaved very loosely, for example, he walked around naked, and when the parents, who were resting next to the children, asked the communist to cover up his shame, he replied that he was promoting “European values of freedom.” That, because of which all the casual eyewitnesses blushed, he did not hesitate to demonstrate in front of the cameras of mobile phones. Witnesses of that holiday wrote a statement to the police, attaching everything that was filmed.
From the statement: “Neither the presence of young children, nor the request to get dressed stopped Samsonov. Deliberately showing off his genitals, being completely naked in the presence of our children, he and his naked friends, ignoring our requests to leave our camp, impudently came to our summer building and abused alcohol at our table, swearing, brawling.
As a result, there were a lot of photographs confirming the perverted inclinations of the people’s choice. Some of them are attached to the application. For example, a picture where a deputy and first secretary of the Vladivostok branch of the Communist Party walks along the beach in the company of the same naked people. Judging by other candid shots, it’s time for the deputy to add the LGBT flag to his native red flag. As the investigators found out, Samsonov taught the younger generation the so-called European values. — Inset K.ru
Since 2016, Samsonov has served as first secretary of the Vladivostok branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, deputy head of the Primorsky Territory Legislative Assembly Committee on Regional Policy and Legality. In the elections in September 2021, he was nominated for the State Duma, but took second place in his constituency, losing to the United Russia candidate.
Gazeta.Ru, 09/20/2022, “The Communist Party of the Russian Federation announced that the case of Primorye deputy Samsonov, accused of child molestation, is “sewn with white thread”: Georgy Kamnev, head of the legal service of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, told Gazeta.Ru that Samsonov’s fellow party members will challenge the verdict, since, in their opinion, there is no evidence of the deputy’s guilt.
“In those days when Samsonov was charged with committing a crime, he was not in the country at all. He traveled to North Korea with a delegation. After Artyom presented all the evidence that he was not involved in this case, the investigation, in my opinion, began to adjust the events to those days when he was [в стране]. Witnesses began to change their testimony, they began to build a line that he was guilty. After that, he presented other evidence of innocence. There was a billing of his phone, he was in another place. The indications changed again. In a word, they simply adjusted them to the desired result, ”Kamnev said.
A complaint against Samsonov came from a certain Irina S., with whom he had previously been on friendly terms. Kamnev said that the applicant in the politician’s case had previously shown “signs of attention” to him, and after the refusal, she repeatedly complained to law enforcement agencies. — Inset K.ru