Gatsenko Pavel

Biography

2021: Dismissal after posting video of patient bullying

In early October 2021, the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Alexander Kalashnikov fired the head of the Regional Tuberculosis Hospital No. 1 (OTB-1) of the FSIN Directorate for the Saratov Region Pavel Gatsenko after information about the use of torture in this institution appeared on the Internet. This was reported by the press service of the FSIN.

A video was published on the YouTube with footage of sexual violence and torture of convicts. As explained in the Telegram channel Gulagu.net, the frames recorded at least four episodes of violent acts and torture, torture and humiliation of prisoners, which, according to the report, took place in the Regional Tuberculosis Hospital No. 1 of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Saratov Region.

Director of the FSIN Tuberculosis Hospital in Saratov Pavel Gatsenko fired after publishing a video of bullying patients

The Investigative Department of the RF IC in the Saratov Region opened seven criminal cases after the publication of videos. Five cases were instituted under paragraph "a" of part 2 of Art. 132 of the Criminal Code (violent acts of a sexual nature), the rest - under paragraph "a" of part 3 of Art. 286 of the Criminal Code (abuse of power committed with the use of violence and the threat of its use). According to investigators, the crimes were committed in OTB-1 from January 2020 to May 2021 in relation to four prisoners.

According to the founder of the Gulagu.net, Vladimir Osechkin, similar bullying of prisoners was in the Saratov OTB-1 and earlier. The torture has been functioning for more than 10 years, it was supervised by high-ranking representatives of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Saratov Region, he said.

In addition to Pavel Gatsenko, the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Saratov Region Alexei Fedotov, deputy head for security and operational work Sergey Salov, head of the operational department Anton Bochkov and head of the security department Sergey Maltsev lost their posts against the backdrop of the scandal.^[1]

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