In the Moscow Region, a court sentenced men who forcibly took a woman to rehab to imprisonment

Verdict in the case of forced placement in a rehab center

The Serpukhov City Court has sentenced a man who twice tried to forcibly place his former cohabiting partner in a rehabilitation center, as well as his accomplices. According to Gazeta.Ru citing the assistant head of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Moscow Region Olga Vrady, the participants in the abduction received from five to seven years of imprisonment.

Two attempts two months apart

The first incident occurred in December 2024. A resident of Serpukhov came to his ex-partner, handcuffed her and tried to take her to a rehabilitation center to treat her addiction. Along the way, he took away her mobile phone and withdrew more than 8,000 rubles from her card, but she never reached the rehab facility — she escaped along the way.

The second attempt and the release

In February 2025, the man repeated the attempt, having arranged in advance with three employees of a rehabilitation center in the Dmitrov City District. The four men attacked the woman at her home and forcibly took her to the rehab facility. The victim was released after her friend contacted law enforcement.

What is known and what remains unclear

The report indicates that the sentence was handed down to the 'participants in the abduction,' but the exact number of those convicted and the distribution of sentences among them are not disclosed in the publication. It is also not specified under which article of the Criminal Code the defendants' actions were qualified, or whether the verdict has entered into legal force. The article ends with a mention of another incident: it was previously reported that a rejected Russian man, who robbed the apartment of a 27-year-old acquaintance— this is a separate incident, unrelated to this case.