Samsonov Artyom Anatolyevich

Samsonov Artyom Anatolyevich

Biography

2016-2021: Served as First Secretary of the Vladivostok branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation

Since 2016, Artem Samsonov has served as first secretary of the Vladivostok branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, deputy head of the committee of the Legislative Assembly of Primorsky Krai on regional policy and legality.

In the elections in September 2021, he was nominated to the State Duma, but took second place in his constituency, losing to the candidate from United Russia.

2022:13 years in a maximum security colony for child molestation

The Sovetsky District Court of the city Vladivostok convicted the deputy of the legislative assembly of Primorye, the first secretary of the Vladivostok city committee CPRF Artem Samsonov. He was found guilty of committing a crime under paragraph "b" of Part 4 of Art. 132 of the Criminal Code (RUSSIAN FEDERATION violent acts of a sexual nature, that is, other acts of a sexual nature using the helpless state of the victim committed against a person under the age of fourteen). The press service for the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee Russia Primorsky Territory announced this on September 20, 2022.

The investigation and the court found that on one of the days between June 1 and July 31, 2018, the defendant during a beach vacation, being on the territory of a recreation center in the area of ​ ​ Lazurnaya Street in the city of Vladivostok, while communicating with the 11-year-old son of his friend, showed him an intimate object and brought him information about his purpose.

Artem Anatolyevich Samsonov

Шаблон:Quote 'The evidence collected by the investigating authorities of the RF IC in the Primorsky Territory was recognized by the court as sufficient to convict a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Primorsky Territory, the UK said. According to Kommersant, during the investigation and trial, the politician flatly refused to plead guilty. He insisted that the charge was built on a slip by members of the same family (the boy's dad, his mistress and her adult son). Artem Samsonov claims that he is being persecuted for political reasons as a representative of the opposition party.^[1]

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