Baza journalists collected testimonies from victims and their relatives about brutal abuse at the Antonov PRO rehabilitation center in the Moscow region. Four employees are suspected of abusing patients, who were held there for months in exchange for monthly payments of 150 rubles from their families.

Victims describe the "reprogramming" as a system of beatings with sticks, isolation in the basement, and threats with a gun. The brother of one of the men said that the staff kept all packages from relatives for themselves. A woman in withdrawal was bound in duct tape for three days, forced to relieve herself, although, according to her, she was spared the main torture because the male residents humiliated each other, starved her, and poured boiling water on her instead of food.

To conceal their actions, staff concealed bruises with foundation to create fake photo and video reports for their families. Patients were forced to speak cheerfully on the phone. They were threatened with murder and a fake escape for disclosing their information. One woman noted that the consultants and coordinators were former criminals, and that the center's founder, Maxim Antonov, bragged about his connections to the police, which kept her silent for a long time, fearing the case would be hushed up.

Antonov was detained upon returning from Thailand. The reasons why the center had avoided earlier inspections remain unknown.