A convict from the Sverdlovsk colony confessed years later to 17 more serious crimes.

      On April 3, 2026, a confession from a convict from the Verkhoturye colony IK-53 helped solve 17 serious crimes from previous years committed in Perm. This was reported on Friday by the press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Sverdlovsk region.

      Employees of the operational department of IK-53 (Verkhoturye, male general regime correctional colony) did significant work that led to the disclosure of a series of crimes committed against a minor, the Federal Penitentiary Service reported.

      It all started when convict P. voluntarily wrote a confession. The information obtained was passed on by the operatives of IK-53 to their colleagues from the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Perm Krai.

      "The result exceeded expectations: the police were able to solve 17 episodes of the criminal activity of convict P., which had long remained unsolved," the Sverdlovsk Federal Penitentiary Service reported.

      These crimes fall under paragraph "b" of part 4 of article 132 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Violent sexual acts against a person under the age of fourteen) and paragraph "g" of part 2 of article 242.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Production and circulation of materials or items with pornographic images of minors using the Internet). All these criminal cases were classified as serious and were initiated between 2020 and 2025.