FSB hacked into accounts of believers and conducted searches in the Pskov region

On April 3, 2019, in the city of Porkhov (Pskov region), FSB officers broke into the apartment where the married couple Sergey and Svetlana Komissarov live. The security forces knocked the head of the family to the floor, took away his and his guests' mobile devices and forbade them to record what was happening. Thus began the "operation of the FSB of the city of Pskov", in the context of which another search took place on the same day.

As Sergey said, in the morning at about 11:00 a.m., unknown people began to call persistently at the door of the apartment where they live. "I went to the door, the lock was not closed, I opened the door, I saw a lot of people. Not understanding what was happening, I began to close it, then there was an unexpected attack, blows to the head, I was thrown to the floor. After that, the whole crowd flew into the apartment. Sergey was presented with a court order for a search. Then the security forces under him hacked into his accounts on several Internet resources and, under dictation, recorded the information in the protocol. The computer, tablet and all information media were confiscated by law enforcement officers.

According to eyewitnesses, none of those present were allowed to photograph, rewrite or in any other way record the names, ranks and positions of operatives. The search lasted approximately 4.5 hours. At about 4:30 p.m., the search began in the apartment of two of Sergey's guests. The security forces seized laptops, a tablet, a phone, a bank card and flash drives from them.

As a result, 52-year-old Sergey Komissarov, his wife, as well as 44-year-old Alexei Khabarov were taken for interrogation to the regional center - to the main Directorate of the FSB of Russia in the Pskov region. Around midnight, everyone was released, and the men were ordered not to leave the place.

As it became known, the searches took place within the framework of a criminal case on extremism, which was initiated by the senior investigator for especially important cases of the investigative department of the FSB of Russia in the Pskov region, Lieutenant Colonel of Justice Irina Pravdivtseva.