The key facts

  • Mash reports the arrest of Pavel Navetny on Phuket over an expired visa
  • The channel claims he lived illegally for almost two years and owed 150,000 rubles in rent
  • Family representatives have neither confirmed nor denied the information

Report of the arrest

Pavel Navetny, 31, son of sound engineer Sergei Navetny, who worked with the bands Chizh & Co and Kukryniksy and with Elena Vaenga, may have been arrested in Thailand over an expired visa. This is reported by the Telegram channel Mash citing its own source; a report on this was prepared by Gazeta.Ru.

Circumstances according to the channel

According to Mash, Pavel had been living illegally on Phuket for almost two years and is currently being held in an immigration detention facility. The channel claims that he had not paid rent for his apartment for several months; the landlady complained to the police and is withholding his passport until she receives the debt of 150,000 rubles. In addition, according to the channel, the younger Navetny was fined, and his father tried to send money through an acquaintance who allegedly disappeared along with the transfer.

Status of the information

All the information comes from a single Telegram channel and its unnamed source: family representatives have neither confirmed nor denied the reports so far, and no independent confirmation of the arrest appears in the publications. No official comments from Thai authorities or the Russian embassy have been cited either.