Raoul Wallenberg
Meshchansky court in Moscow rejected the claim of relatives of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg to the FSB with the requirement to disclose information about his fate after his arrest in 1945 in the USSR. On Monday, September 18, reports “Interfax”.
“The court has decided: satisfaction of the claim of Marie’elsa Dupuis to refuse full volume”, — announced the decision of the judge of Irina Afanasyeva.
Dupuy, niece of a diplomat, filed a lawsuit in July. “Native Wallenberg require to oblige the Russian secret service to provide access to original documents on Wallenberg, and their uncensored copies”, — said the lawyer Ivan Pavlov.
According to him, the requested documents for 70 years. “This case is not only an opportunity to restore the memory of the outstanding person, but also a strong argument in the fight for the opening of the archives of the FSB and other agencies”, — concluded the lawyer.
It was noted that Dupuis decided to sue the FSB due to the fact that requests to Russian authorities have not yielded results.
The circumstances of the death of Wallenberg is still not clear. In Sweden, his death was officially recognized only in 2016. The Ministry of foreign Affairs of the USSR in 1957, stated that the diplomat died in June 1947 in the prison of the Ministry of state security (MGB) in the Lubyanka, but not all historians believe this version is accurate.
Wallenberg is famous due to its activities to rescue Jews during the Second world war. As a member of the Swedish mission in Hungary, he gave Jews Swedish passports. According to some, he managed to convince some of the warlords not to destroy the Budapest ghetto before retreating. In 1945 Wallenberg was arrested by Soviet troops and transported from Hungary to the Soviet Union. In those years, issues of state security in the Soviet Union was in charge of the MGB, one of the successors which became the FSB.