MOSCOW, August 3. /TASS/. A magistrate’s court has ordered a ten-day administrative arrest for Vladimir Mokhov, notoriously known as the "Skopin maniac", for participation in a video in support of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Mokhov pled guilty, the court's secretariat told TASS.
At the end of July, a video appeared in the media and on telegram channels showing Viktor Mokhov wearing a T-shirt and cap with CPRF emblems. In the video, Mokhov said that he supported the CPRF leader Gennady Zyuganov. The Communist Party's regional office in the Ryazan Region has said that Mokhov had nothing to do with the CPRF and the video was a provocation. The court's secretariat said the ruling exclusively concerned Mokhov's participation in the video in support of the CPRF and its leader.
The court found Mokhov responsible for committing an administrative offense and sentenced him to an administrative arrest for ten days.
The court said that by participating in the video clip Mokhov, for a second time, violated an administrative restriction. On April 1, he was fined 1,200 rubles for participation in a documentary filmed by TV journalist Kseniya Sobchak.
Earlier, a district court in the Saratov Region imposed a number of administrative restrictions on Mokhov, such as a ban on visiting sports, entertainment and other mass events for a period of six years and also on participation in such events.
He is not allowed to leave his home from 22:00 to 06:00, except for when he is at work, or to travel outside the Skopin district without permission from the police. Also, he is obliged to report to the local police office four times a month.
In June 2021, the Ryazan district court sustained a request from the police for tightening administrative supervision measures against Mokhov by prohibiting him from contacts with the mass media and on the Internet and also visiting public catering outlets where alcohol is on the menu.
In 2005, a court in Skopin, the Ryazan Region, sentenced Viktor Mokhov (born in 1950) to 16 years and ten months in a tight security penal colony for crimes against sexual freedom and the sexual inviolability of a minor. The court found that he had abducted two young women (aged 14 and 17) in Ryazan in 2000. He raped both victims and kept them in the basement of an outbuilding of his home in Skopin for nearly four years. At the beginning of March 2021, he was released after serving his prison term.