In March, the FSB took over the management of seven pretrial detention centers that had previously been part of the FSIN system. This follows from EGRUL data, The Insider reports. The facilities themselves were renamed and are now listed as FSB detention centers.
Transferred to FSB control were:
🔷 SIZO-2, Moscow ("Lefortovo");
🔷 SIZO-3, St. Petersburg;
🔷 SIZO-4, Rostov-on-Don;
🔷 SIZO-5, Krasnodar;
🔷 SIZO-6, Vladikavkaz;
🔷 SIZO-7, Chelyabinsk;
🔷 SIZO-8, Simferopol.
At least four of them — Lefortovo, as well as the detention centers in Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, and North Ossetia — saw their wardens replaced. Almost nothing is known about them from open sources. Information about the leadership of one more detention center is hidden. Neither FSIN nor the FSB publicly announced the changes.
"Фактически это предприятия полного замкнутого цикла. Следователи ФСБ помещают под стражу с помощью ручных судов, а дальше уже можно работать <...> Все то плохое, что было в российских СИЗО, можно смело умножать на два, на три", lawyer Nikolai Polozov said.
In July 2025, Putin signed a law allowing the FSB to create its own pretrial detention centers. Pretrial detention centers under central authority, which had previously been subordinate to the FSIN (an agency of the Justice Ministry), were also supposed to be transferred to the security service. The document came into force on January 1.