Hmmm, any state arrests for public corruption recently? Picking up the pace a bit? (Shhhh, Xi's doing it too, but don't tell anyone…)
Russia's FSB security service to get its own pre-trial detention centres, deputy says
Jul 8th
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's Federal Security Service, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, will soon have the power to create a network of pre-trial detention centres under its own jurisdiction, according to a bill passed by the lower house of parliament.
After the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union and in the years after Russia joined the Council of Europe in 1996, the FSB lost its formal hold over a network of pre-trial detention centres, though it retained significant informal control.
Lawmakers say that the FSB needs such detention facilities due to a spike in the intelligence and subversive activities of foreign powers since the start of the war in Ukraine - known as the "special military operation" inside Russia.
Vasily Piskaryov, the chairman of the lower house of parliament's Security and Anti-Corruption Committee, said the law had been passed in its final reading by the chamber, the State Duma.
"The law provides for the detention of those accused of crimes against state security in separate detention facilities under the jurisdiction of the FSB of Russia," Piskaryov said on Telegram.
An explanatory note accompanying the bill said that military personnel from state security would run the detention centres.
Piskaryov said that treason, espionage and terrorism cases had soared three-fold over the past decade, while the number of defendants had soared by four-fold.
https://m.piqsuite.com/reuters/russias-fsb-security-service-to-get-its-own-pre-trial-detention-centres-deputy-says-2025-07-08-14-16-18