The police chief was arrested for kidnapping men to be sent to the Northern Military District in the Ivanovo region.
As IvanovoNews writes, the head of the interior department of the Komsomolsky District, Yuriy Shibaev, was arrested on November 11. He is accused of three crimes committed as part of an organized group: kidnapping, fraud and unauthorized access to computer information. According to Barca, we are talking about the kidnapping of people who were then sent to the Northern Military District. The case involves 15 people, seven of whom are victims.
At the trial, Shiviev pleaded not guilty to the charges and refused to testify. The investigation is at an early stage. The prosecutor and the investigators asked to send him to pre-trial detention, the defense insisted on house arrest. The court remanded the policeman until January 2.
Shibaev himself began working in departmental organizations of the Komsomolsky district in 2002 as an assistant to a district policeman, and since 2014 he has held senior positions. From 2024 he is the deputy commander of the department - the police chief.
In October 2025, several residents of the Ivanovo region told IvanovoNews about abductions and forced transfer to the Northern Military District. According to my interlocutors, the men were lured with job offers, and then taken to unknown locations, beaten and forced to sign military contracts. One of the women said that her father and aunt were taken near the store and held for three days in an abandoned camp. Later the uncle made contact, and the father was declared missing. Another man claimed he was lured by an offer to renovate an apartment, then locked in a shed and beaten to force him to sign a contract.
Varska (a foreign agent) also wrote about kidnappings in the Ivanovo area. According to the publication, at least six local residents have disappeared since the fall of 2024. Relatives claimed that the men were lured with offers of part-time work or forcibly taken from their homes, and then forced to sign contracts with the Ministry of Defense. In particular, in the village of Niconiha, unknown persons who presented themselves as men in uniform took two men.