The key facts

  • A 14-year-old teenager in Irkutsk is accused of extorting 20,000 rubles and robbery — taking the victim's phone
  • The victim is a 15-year-old schoolboy; the detainee admitted guilt and has been placed in custody

What happened

In Irkutsk, a 14-year-old teenager accused of extortion and robbery has been placed in custody, TASS reports, citing the prosecutor's office of the Irkutsk Region. According to the authority, in September 2026 the schoolboy, near a café, demanded 20,000 rubles from a 15-year-old acquaintance, threatening to spread information that could disgrace the boy. The victim perceived the threat as real and agreed to hand over the money.

Detention and pretrial measure

A month later, according to the prosecutor's office, the same teenager took the victim's phone. Criminal cases on robbery and extortion were opened against the seventh-grader; he was detained and placed in custody. During interrogations, he reportedly admitted his guilt. Gazeta.Ru separately notes that the teenager has been placed in a pretrial detention facility — a pretrial measure that is rarely applied to a 14-year-old defendant and is usually used in grave cases.

Context of similar cases

The publications also cite other recent cases of crimes involving minors: in the Urals, teenagers were sentenced for breaking a classmate's ribs and filming the incident on a phone, as well as a report about a Russian teenager who forced a boy to smoke and raped him in a hut. The publications cite these episodes as separate incidents — they are not connected to the Irkutsk case.