We chose to translate and publish the cassation court’s ruling on the Zhdanovsky District Court’s verdict not only because it’s shorter than the verdict itself (which spans 200 pages of handwritten text), but also for the sake of objectivity. These documents confirmed that there was no mention of prostitution in the judgement.Īpparently, the widespread error (which, unfortunately, ended up in Meduza’s reporting) was due to a phrase from Article 210 of Soviet Russia’s Criminal Code, which appeared in Prigozhin’s verdict: “The involvement of minors in criminal activity, panhandling, prostitution, or gambling, as well the use of minors for living parasitically.” It’s clear from other court documents that Prigozhin’s conviction has to do with “drunkenness” and “attempted burglary.” Petersburg’s Primorsky District Court (formerly, the Zhdanovsky District Court of Leningrad - where Prigozhin was tried in 1981).
In 2018 (two years after Meduza’s article was published), Rosbalt managed to obtain copies of the verdict from Prigozhin’s case from St. The story about “involving minors in prostitution” was widespread in the media at that time according to Ilya Davlyatchin, author of Rosbalt’s investigation into Prigozhin, “in several news sources and, in principle, on Wikipedia, there was a line about how Evgeny Viktorovich was convicted of involving minors in prostitution.” Our article did state that Prigozhin was convicted of “involving minors in prostitution,” which led to Prigozhin’s complaints against Meduza. Evgeny Prigozhin filed a defamation lawsuit against Meduza, its editor-in-chief Ivan Kolpakov, Dovod editor-in-chief Ilya Kosygin, and journalist Maxim Shevchenko in November 2020, after Dovod published an interview in which Shevchenko called Prigozhin a “ twice-convicted felon, including for the involvement of minors in prostitution.” The interview linked to a Meduza article published on June 9, 2016: “ Evgeny Prigozhin's right to be forgotten: What does Vladimir Putin's favorite chef want to hide from the Internet?”
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