The investigation revealed that the perpetrators gained the trust of an inmate serving a sentence in colony No. 1. From December 2024 to April 2025, they repeatedly extorted significant sums of money from him, promising a guaranteed resolution of his pardon request. However, after receiving the money, they failed to fulfill their promises, and the inmate was officially denied a pardon.
Currently, J.D. and T.N. have been arrested and placed in the temporary detention facility of the GKNB. A criminal case has been initiated against them under the article on fraud in especially large amounts. Instead of the freedom they promised to others, the scammers themselves ended up in custody, and investigative authorities are checking their involvement in other similar cases of "selling" acts of mercy.
