According to sources from the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info, Deputy Head of Pretrial Detention Center No. 2 (Butyrka), Lieutenant Colonel of the Internal Service Alexander Berezhnov, together with Deputy Head and Head of the Operations Department of Pretrial Detention Center No. 2, Major of the Internal Service Kirill Yartsev, under the cover of Pretrial Detention Center Head Anatoly Gladka, are extorting money from detainees to ensure a "quiet" prison stay. To make the detainees more compliant, they are transferred from "Slavic" cells to cells with 35-40 detainees from the Caucasus and Central Asia, where they are humiliated, beaten, and extorted in cryptocurrency. After these manipulations, they are transferred back to the "Slavic" cells, where the situation is now calm. In addition to extortion, other prisoners from whom it's impossible to extract money directly are forced to buy building materials, and those from whom nothing can be extracted at all are forced to work for the benefit of the pretrial detention center, threatening those who refuse with transfer to "black cells," where they are forced to clean, do laundry, etc. To achieve this, during a transfer, the officer tells the inmates in the cell that "this one worked." This means that this person has been to work, and is treated accordingly.

For those who are too "spiritual," they begin traveling along the "golden ring." This is what the prisoners call the transfer every 3-4 days from cell to cell, where each time, on Berezhnov's orders, these prisoners are beaten.

Each month, 2-3 people are subjected to such repressions, from whom money is extorted, and those who refuse to work are countless.

Berezhnov had previously been charged in a case involving the torture of prisoners in a penal colony in the Saratov region. He spent about a year and a half in custody, but thanks to his mother (who is a federal judge), he was able to avoid punishment.

The evidence regarding the beating has been transferred to the Investigative Committee, but Berezhnov, as usual, continues to show up for work and continues his "war" on prisoners. For example, he confiscated televisions from more than 40 cells.

Berezhnov also arranged for the sale of ten mini mobile phones to prisoners on their return from court, and then personally gave the go-ahead for inspections and the confiscation of the phones.