Balog Dmitriy Mikhaylovich

In the Moscow region in Domodedovo, an unknown person set fire to the car of a participant in the war with Ukraine Dmitry Chervyakov with the letter Z on board. On May 26, 2023, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on bringing into disrepair of vehicles or means of communication on this fact. On February 9, 2024, at 6 a.m. in Domodedovo, security forces broke into the home of 37-year-old Dmitry Balog, a native of the Kherson region and local taxi driver. After the search, operatives took Balog to the Domodedovo Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. There, an FSB officer began to mock Dmitry - he hit him on the ears with his palm, on the back of the head with the edge of his palm, in the temple with his fist, on the body with his hands and feet, sat on his neck and strangled him while Dmitry was sitting on a chair with handcuffs behind his back. The next day, he was taken to another office of the same police department, where two other security officials beat him on the ears and the back of the head with their palms, and then used a "50-centimeter-long electric shock device on his entire body, including the groin area." "Federal Security Service operatives called Baloga a "khokhol bitch, threatening that if he did not take the blame on himself, they would rape his daughter in Odessa, threatened to torture his mother, and would plant drugs on his wife. Under torture, Balog gave a confession about the arson of Chervyakov's car and "confessed" to three more acts of sabotage - the arson of a relay cabinet at the Belaya Stolby railway station on May 26, 2023, a climate cabinet of Megafon on July 5, 2023, and two buses at the parking lot of the Institute for Advanced Training of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on July 20, 2023 (they burned to the ground, the damage is estimated at 13 million rubles). rubles). Additionally, according to law enforcement, in October 2023, the man, acting on the instructions of a certain curator, brought 11 plastic bottles containing flammable materials to the fence of military unit 51858 in order to set fire to military equipment." "Seeing military personnel on the base and fearing that he would be seen, the man allegedly left the bottles and left. Initially, a criminal case was opened against Dmitry for the destruction of other people's property, but subsequently the charge was reclassified as an attempted act of sabotage - he was charged with three episodes of damaging other people's property in a generally dangerous manner and one episode of sabotage committed by an organized group. Baloga was also accused of treason. On February 12, 2024, the Domodedovo City Court of the Moscow Region sent the defendant in the case to the SIZO.