MOSCOW, July 17 (RIA Novosti) – Twenty-five Russian Federal Prisons Service (FSIN) officials have been disciplined after a murder suspect escaped from a Moscow jail in May, a FSIN representative said Wednesday.
Oleg Topalov, who escaped from the Matrosskaya Tishina pretrial detention facility by making a hole in the ceiling and climbing through an air vent, was detained the following day in a nearby park.
Following an inspection initiated by FSIN director Gennady Korniyenko, two officials have been dismissed while the others have been disciplined, FSIN spokeswoman Kristina Belousova said, without specifying the nature of the penalties involved.
Anatoly Tikhomirov, head of the FSIN Moscow branch, previously said conclusions had been drawn from the inspection following the escape, and a plan devised to prevent future escapes.
Only two Matrosskaya Tishina jailbreaks have been reported, both of which involved alleged murderers. One of them was Alexander “Superkiller” Solonik in 1995, linked by media to the same Kurgan crime gang as Topalov.
