A native of the Yaroslavl region said that he was held in captivity for 20 years in Kazakhstan
A man who claims to be a citizen of Russia said that he had been held in slavery for 20 years in Kazakhstan. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the police department of the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan.
The police provided a video in which a man introduces himself as a native of the village of Gore-Gryaz, Gavrilov-Yamskiy district, Yaroslavl region, Alexei Aleksandrovich Kotov, and says that he is in captivity. The Russian asks his parents to help him “get out of Kazakhstan.”
Later, law enforcement officers established that the man in the video is a 44-year-old Russian citizen. A 44-year-old local resident suspected of illegal imprisonment has already been detained. A criminal case was initiated.
In July, it became known that a woman and her 11-year-old son were kept on a farm in the Tula region. Initially, the owner of the farm, a former prisoner, helped the Russian woman restore her documents and treated her and the child well, but after a while he began to constantly find fault with her and sometimes beat her. Later, the woman managed to contact the volunteers.