She wrote in March that Shvedov was accused under the article on desecration of the bodies of the dead and their burial places (Part 1 of Article 244 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
According to investigators, on July 21, 2024, Shvedov pasted a poster with the inscription “Rooster” on the monument to Prigozhin at the Prokhorovsky cemetery in St. Petersburg. In addition, he was photographed against the background of a monument with a poster “Intelligence by Noah Stepan Zasunko.”
The court began considering the case against Shvedov in March 2025, but he failed to appear in court three times, after which he was put on the wanted list, Lebedeva noted on Telegram in June.
On December 23, she said that the man was later found in the Leningrad region, where he had stolen a little more than 6 thousand rubles from a bank account. Shvedov was sent to a pre-trial detention center.
“Well, there’s already a matter of technology: a petition about the desire to defend the Motherland, a one-year contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense, the North Military District zone (This is how the aggressor country calls the war against Ukraine. – “GORDON”). The magistrate suspended the criminal case against Shvedov,” said the press secretary of the St. Petersburg courts.
Context
On August 23, 2023 it became known about the crash of Prigozhin's plane in the Tver region of the Russian Federation. The Gray Zone Telegram channel, close to the Wagner PMC, wrote that before the plane crashed, local residents heard explosions from the operation of the air defense system. The media reported that near the site of the crash of Prigozhin’s plane, 50 km from the residence of the illegitimate Russian President Vladimir Putin in Valdai, there are four S-300 air defense missile divisions guarding it. The plane crash occurred exactly two months after the uprising in Russia, which arranged by Prigogine.
The Investigative Committee of the aggressor country, Russia, stated on August 27 that the examination confirmed the death of Prigozhin in a plane crash. The death of the remaining people on board Prigozhin’s plane was also confirmed, according to a previously published list of the Federal Air Transport Agency. On August 29, according to Russian media, Prigozhin was buried.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry believes that Prigozhin Putin killed. At the same time, on September 6, the representative of the Ukrainian military intelligence, Andrei Yusov, said that the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine not completely sure in the death of Prigozhin. “We can 100% talk about a confirmed death [командира ЧВК Дмитрия] Utkin and some other passengers. Regarding Prigozhin, let’s say, not all questions are closed yet,” Yusov noted then.
