The editor-in-chief of "Baza" was arrested for two months

The court arrested the editor-in-chief of the Telegram channel "Baza" Gleb Trifonov, he was accused of giving a bribe to a group of people. He refused to admit guilt. The police officers, including those detained in the Krasnodar Territory, from whom, according to the investigation, Trifonov bought operational information, were taken to Moscow.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" reported, on July 22, security forces came with a search to the office of the Telegram channel "Baza", editor-in-chief Gleb Trifonov was taken in for questioning. The Investigative Committee reported a criminal case, within its framework, searches were conducted in, in particular, Moscow and the Krasnodar Territory in the case of police officers transferring information for publication on the Telegram channel. In Kuban and two other regions of Russia, police officers have been detained for passing information to employees of the Telegram channel "Baza".

The court has arrested Baza editor-in-chief Gleb Trifonov until September 20, he was accused of giving a bribe to a group of people. The investigation believes that Trifonov received official information from police officers for money. Then it was published on the Telegram channel. Similar charges were brought against producer Tatyana Lukyanova. The amount of bribes was about 100 thousand rubles. The journalists do not admit guilt, Kommersant reported today.

The defense asked for house arrest. "There is no evidence in the case. The criminal case materials do not contain any testimony from police officers about whether they actually interacted with journalists and provided the information for which they are accused. All the officers lived far from Moscow and were not familiar with Gleb Trifonov. The defense found publications from the outlets listed in the case and published after other major outlets like Kommersant. Such information is worth nothing to a journalist. Telegram channels have a special bot — the source of the information can request a fee, but the journalist does not know where it comes from. Its job is to verify this information," Baza quoted lawyer Alexei Mikhalchik as saying at the hearing.

Gleb's mother, Yulia Trifonova, also asked not to place him in a pretrial detention center. "I am dependent on my son, he supports me. I lost my husband 1.5 years ago. Gleb is a law-abiding citizen, he loves his son and his fiancée very much, his grandparents are still alive. He has a great responsibility, he will definitely not hide. I ask you not to take my son away," her words are quoted in another publication of the publication.

"The police officers involved in the Baza case from Krasnodar, Belgorod and Krasnoyarsk were brought to Moscow for investigative actions," TASS quoted Mikhalchik as saying today.

The detained police officers did not confirm that they had received money, the agency reported.

Vice Speaker of the State Duma Vladislav Davankov demanded a fair trial. "I contacted Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov and asked him to take the Baza case under his personal control. The trial must be fair," he wrote on his Telegram channel.

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