The service’s former chief, Sergei Beseda, 68, has been sent to Lefortovo prison in Moscow after he was placed under house arrest last month.

The prison was used by the NKVD for interrogation and torture during Stalin’s Great Purge of the 1930s https://t.co/LgS8ZMbHUc

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