A REN TV correspondent was tried to be forcibly taken to an underground rehab

The REN TV team has uncovered the underground forced rehabilitation market. During the experiment, a TV channel correspondent was forcibly injected with an unknown sedative in order to be taken to rehab.

Our employee Nikita Pikalov is a staunch advocate of a healthy lifestyle. According to legend, he was "ordered" to undergo rehabilitation in one of the "black" rehabilitation centers. For 20 thousand rubles, any person can be registered there — the perpetrators will arrive, twist the victim, take him away and turn him into a vegetable.

Despite Nikita's attempts to prove his commitment to a healthy lifestyle, the orderlies attack him, strangle him and try to give him an injection. They also did not check any documents proving the "legend of alcoholism."

How the story ended — watch in a unique investigation on Saturday at 17.00 on REN TV

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The court arrested two suspects, but nothing is known about the whereabouts of the clinic's owner, psychologist Anna Khobotova.

As reported on December 4 last year, 30 people were subjected to violence and deprived of food and water at the SERTSA (Antonov PRO) center. A local resident, whose sister was at the center, told law enforcement about the incident. After that, similar statements were received from three more citizens.

On the same day, eight employees of two rehabilitation centers in the Moscow region were detained in cases of illegal detention of guests.

At the end of November, a criminal case was opened in the Moscow suburb of Istra due to the torture and detention of teenagers with various addictions in an illegal rehabilitation center. The Istra District Court arrested the organizer of the rehab in Dedovsk, Moscow region, Anna Khobotova, until January 22.

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