The POC of Moscow announced the absence of Surovikin in Matrosskaya Tishina and the Kremlin Central

The executive secretary of the Public Monitoring Commission (POC) of Moscow, Alexei Melnikov, said that Sergei Surovikin, deputy commander of the joint group of troops in Ukraine, is not in the capital’s detention centers SIZO-6, SIZO-1/77 (“Matrosskaya Tishina”), SIZO-1/99 (“Kremlin Central “”) and pre-trial detention center-4. At the same time, Mr. Melnikov noted that Mr. Surovikin could be in a pre-trial detention center in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region.

“This week I visited SIZO-6, SIZO-1/77 (“Matrosskaya Tishina”), SIZO-1/99 (“Kremlin Central”) and SIZO-4. They clarified according to Surovikin. He is not here. It is surprising that (blogger Anatoly.— “b”) Shariy and (anonymous Telegram channel.— “b”) The VChK-OGPU continue to claim the opposite,” wrote Alexey Melnikov in Telegram.

The secretary of the POC noted that he could not confirm or deny the presence of Mr. Surovikin in a pre-trial detention center in the Odintsovo district, because this is the territory of the PMC of the Moscow region. “But it is unlikely that he is there, and indeed in any place of detention (this fact is very difficult to hide),” Mr. Melnikov noted.

Yesterday, July 12, Andrey Kartapolov, Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee saidthat Mr. Surovikin is “now resting” and “not yet available.”

Sergei Surovikin has not appeared in public since June 23. Then he recorded a call to the fighters of the Wagner PMC, who had begun the “march of justice” to Moscow, to return to the field camps. By that time, the FSB opened a criminal case on the rebellion on the fact of the actions of the PMC fighters. Criminal case was closed 27th of June.

June 29 Kremlin forwarded the question of the whereabouts of the commander of the Ministry of Defense. The New York Times, citing sources June 27 wrotethat Mr. Surovikin could know about the plans of the PMC to start a rebellion. Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov called this information speculation. On the same day, the capital’s POC reportedthat Mr. Surovikin is not in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center and other detention centers in Moscow.

Bloomberg citing sources June 29 reportedthat the military prosecutor’s office interrogated Sergei Surovikin for several days about his connections with the founder of Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin. The general was restricted in his movements, but was not arrested, the agency noted.

Erdni Kagaltynov