Vasilyev Ilya (Arvi Hacker)

Vasilyev Ilya (Arvi Hacker)

2024: Arrest

On June 22, 2024, the Preobrazhensky Court of Moscow sent into custody the founder of the "Civil School of Hackers" and the SPRYG computer festival Ilya Vasiliev, known under the pseudonym Arvi Hacker. He is suspected of disseminating deliberately false information about the army.

According to investigators, Vasiliev published on the social network Facebook (owned by Meta, which is recognized as an extremist organization; activities on the territory of the Russian Federation are prohibited) information discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Vasiliev's lawyer Oscar Cherdzhiev said that the posts on Facebook concerned the situation in the zone of the special operation. Investigators found the corresponding messages on the equipment seized from Vasiliev - in May 2023, his smartphone was confiscated from him during an inspection of the apartment. Then the court imposed a fine on the programmer in the amount of 40 thousand rubles according to the protocol on discrediting the army because of the post on VKontakte.

The decision of the Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow granted the petition of the preliminary investigation bodies to choose a preventive measure in the form of detention against Ilya Vladimirovich Vasiliev, accused of committing a crime under paragraph "d" of Part 2 of Art. 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, - the resolution says

Vasiliev himself does not admit guilt. Cherdzhiev calls the petition to detain the programmer "unmotivated and unfounded." The lawyer emphasizes that Vasiliev has not previously been prosecuted, has a constant source of income and is engaged in socially useful activities.

The investigation did not motivate in any way the impossibility of applying other preventive measures, for example, banning certain actions or house arrest, referring to only one severity of the so-called crime, "RBC quoted Cherdzhiev as saying[1]