A deal with a killer

Lawyers are asking for a postponement of punishment Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, who was convicted of organizing the murder of Anna Politkovskaya

The Moscow City Court on Tuesday postponed on July 4 the consideration of the petition of one of the organizers of the murder of the Novaya Gazeta observer Anna Politkovskaya to postpone the punishment for health reasons. The former police lieutenant colonel Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, sentenced to organize the murder of Politkovskaya by 11 years in prison, came out with a petition. Children of the journalist against a delay in punishment. They believe that Pavlyuchenkov did not comply with the terms of the transaction with the investigation (in particular, did not name the name of the customer of the crime), and his health state allows him to serve his punishment.

The defense of the former police officer Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov asks him to delay the execution of the punishment imposed for the organization of Anna Politkovskaya Novaya Gazeta observer in 2006. Pavlyuchenkov is the only one

From the crime ever accused of this, he pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with the investigation, which is why his case was considered in a special order. In December 2012, the Moscow City Court sentenced the former policeman to 11 years in prison in a maximum security colony, but he never left the pre -trial detention center. First, due to the appeal of the verdict, then at the insistence of investigators who interrogated Pavlyuchenkov in connection with the murder of another journalist-the editor-in-chief of the Russian editorial office of Forbes magazine Pala Khlebnikov. According to lawyer Pavlyuchenkov, Karen Nersisyan , two years of prison regime caused significant damage to the health of his client, therefore he asks for a delay in punishment:

- We have repeatedly been warned, and my relatives and me that Pavlyuchenkov’s life is in danger today, medical care, which can be provided in the conditions of the insulator, they provided and provide. But, unfortunately, for the treatment of precisely the diseases that my client has, specialized treatment needs. It should be placed at least in a psychiatric hospital. Because he has a sharp deterioration in health, including those associated with a gross violation of the psyche, ”Karen Nersisyan notes.

According to him, in the system of correctional institutions of Russia there are no such specialized hospitals in colonies that can provide the necessary psychiatric care:

“In the petition, we put the conclusion of a psychiatrist and a neurologist who observed and treated Pavlyuchenkov for two years,” Nersisyan explains, “but I think that, probably, regardless of official documents, it will separately appoint a comprehensive forensic examination, psychiatric with the involvement of specialists and only then make a decision.

The children of Anna Politkovskaya believe that the state of health of Dmitry Pavlyuchenkova is not as critical as his defense declares, and he must serve his sentence now, and not later, along with other sentenced to participate in the murder of Politkovskaya.

“We, the victims, against Pavlyuchenkov, have a delay in connection with the state of health,” says Anna Stavitskaya, lawyer Anna Politkovskaya, “we believe that there are no grounds for deferred. We have a lot of people who are asking for them to either be free from the guard in

Relations with a serious state of health, or delayed the verdict. However, this is invariably deviated by the courts, despite the fact that, for example, a person is accused of committing some economic crime. Pavlyuchenkova was sentenced to commit the murder. He pleaded guilty, for a long time was in custody. We have no reason to believe that it cannot continue to be detained. At the hearing, he rather briskly testified, rather briskly defended his position, and gives evidence on other defendants in this case. We believe that since his role is very serious in the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, he must be all responsible for this and be in places of imprisonment with others.

In addition, the family of Anna Politkovskaya believes that Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov did not fulfill all the terms of the transaction with the investigation (because of this, his case was considered in a special manner and no more than two-thirds from the maximum possible) were appointed punishment). According to the victims, Pavlyuchenkov significantly belittled his role in the crime and did not call the customer of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya.

Retired lieutenant colonel, the former chief of the 4th department of the operational-search department of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov in 2007-2009 was the main witness of the allegations of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, in 2011 he was detained on suspicion of organizing this crime, and on December 14, 2012, the court sentenced Pavlyuchenkov to 11 years in deprivation of liberty.

According to the prosecution, Pavlyuchenkov was a member of the group who committed the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. His duties were observing the journalist, the acquisition of a gas pistol, converted for firing combat cartridges, which he handed over to the killer.