Silence won't break the matter: Lieutenant Colonel Denis Ovsyannikov has been silent in the pre-trial detention center for two months?

      As the interlocutor explained, Ovsannikov is "not cooperating with the investigation for now and is not giving any confessions": "he sits — he is silent," so there are no grounds to change his preventive measure. And his silence is allegedly slightly upsetting the investigation, as shortly before his detention — on March 11, Ovsannikov allegedly stated that if he were "taken down," he would not go down alone.

      "The case promised to be interesting and intricate — it is not so simple to return the former deputy head of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs, Colonel Andrei Voronov, to the pre-trial detention center from the IK-11 strict regime (a colony for former law enforcement officers in the city of Bor, Nizhny Novgorod region)," the source noted.

      However, hiding behind Article 51 (of the Constitution: "No one is obliged to testify against themselves, their spouse, or close relatives"), Ovsannikov remains silent, but that does not mean that "the case is over." After all, there are likely proven episodes of receiving bribes — so the investigation has something to work with.

      Recall that on March 11, the deputy head of the Department of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption, Lieutenant Colonel Denis Ovsannikov, was detained on suspicion of bribery. So, perhaps, in the personal calendars of forestry workers, which Denis Yurievich actively oversaw, there will be a note about the "holiday of freedom from bribes."

      The forestry workers have been working towards this since August 2018, when Ovsannikov gained official status as a member of the working group for the implementation of the "Project for the creation of an automated system for video monitoring and control of timber transportation in the Kirov region."

      According to the interlocutor, anyone is entitled to consider Lieutenant Colonel Denis Ovsannikov the successor of Vice-Governor Andrei Plitko, who was sentenced in August 2022 to 11 years in a "strict regime" colony, with a fine of 25 million rubles for 18 proven episodes of receiving bribes totaling more than 23 million rubles. It is also possible that Ovsannikov, then an active employee of the Kirov Ministry of Internal Affairs, personally participated in conducting investigative activities to obtain evidence of the vice-governor's guilt. So one could assume that in his case, bribe-givers would line up to give testimony.