MOSCOW. Aug 25 (Interfax) - The case of a former traffic police officer who sold information concerning Darya Dugina, killed in a car explosion, on the Internet has been sent to court, Russian prosecutors said.
"The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has approved the indictment in the criminal case in respect of Ivan Rybin and Daniil Choudkhuri. Depending on their roles and extent of involvement in the crimes committed, they are accused of illegal gathering or dissemination of information about a person's private life (parts 1 and 2 of Article 137 of the Russian Criminal Code) and abuse of office (part 1 Article 285 of the Russian Criminal Code)," the Prosecutor General's Office said.
The case will be tried at Moscow's Nagatinsky district court.
According to the inquiry, between February and April 2022, Choudkhuri "posted an ad on a messaging app about gathering confidential information while Rybin, then a GIBDD [Main Directorate of Traffic Safety] state inspector with access to the Federal information system of the State Auto Inspectorate, decided to pass required details for a monetary reward. In May 2022, using his work PC, Rybin obtained information about the private life of Darya Dugina and sold it to Choudkhuri for 3,350 rubles. The latter forwarded the information to unidentified persons," the prosecutor's office said.
Dugina's car was blown up on the evening of August 20, 2022 near the village of Bolshiye Vyazemy in the Moscow region. She died on the spot.
According to the Federal Security Service, footage from surveillance cameras, "gives documentary evidence that the crime's perpetrator, Ukrainian citizen Natalya Pavlovna Vovk, born in 1979, personally followed Dugina at the parking lot for guests of the Tradition festival." After committing the crime, "Vovk left together with her daughter for Estonia via the Pskov region," FSB said. It also said the crime was devised by Ukrainian security services.