Ex-Officials Face Harsher Charges in Death of Inmate

The Investigative Committee has intensified the charges against former leaders of the Irkutsk prison for the murder of an inmate.

Consensus

The case against former officials of Angarsk IK-15 was reopened with more serious charges.
The accused include former head Sergey Shvedkov, his deputies Sergey Yurin and Evgeny Tarakanov, and former head of the operational department Artem Ermakov.
The charges were upgraded from negligence to abuse of authority causing serious consequences.
The victim was inmate Nikolai Shaykhutdinov, who died in 2023 after being beaten upon arrival at the colony.
An appellate court annulled the previous verdict in July 2026 and ordered the case to be returned to prosecutors.
The incident occurred in 2023, shortly after Shaykhutdinov's arrival at the colony.
The investigation alleges that staff orchestrated violence by transferring experienced inmates to quarantine to target new arrivals.

The victim's former partner is a complainant in the case and is seeking other victims to come forward. — tg_govorit_nemoskva
Evgeny Tarakanov stated that the regional FSB decided to turn IK-15 into a 'punitive colony' for 're-education' of dissenters. — tg_horizontal_russia
The colony and associated pre-trial detention centers are known for a long-running torture scandal, including a 2020 uprising by inmates protesting beatings, followed by further torture and rape in other facilities. — tg_govorit_nemoskva