Avtoham from Yekaterinburg Igor Novoselov is suspected of kidnapping a 17-year-old boy in the summer of 2021. According to unofficial data, Novoselov was driving a car in the Kirovsky district, saw a suspicious young man and thought that he was engaged in drug stowage.
“Without thinking, he [Новоселов] pushed a 17-year-old teenager into the trunk,” writes KP-Yekaterinburg, citing a source. “After roaming the streets for a few minutes, he decided to let the hostage go.”
According to the publication, after the teenager was questioned by the police, a criminal case was opened against Novoselov under article 126 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Kidnapping”). At the same time, it turned out that the young man really sold drugs, and a case was opened against him under the article “Illegal sale of narcotic substances,” KP-Yekaterinburg clarifies. The Sverdlovsk department of the Investigative Committee URA.RU said they had no information on the topic.
Novoselov became famous thanks to the phrase “Who are you signaling, uncle?”, which he uttered during a traffic conflict in Yekaterinburg in 2013. At first, the court did not deprive Novoselov of freedom, then he replaced the sentence with a term in a colony. Then Novoselov was sent to jail for beating a taxi driver. In November 2021, the Berezovsky Court (Sverdlovsk Region) gave Novoselov 1.5 years probation in the case under Part 1 of Art. 119 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Threat to kill”). This was due to a road conflict that occurred in May 2020.
