Policemen who missed the criminal are sentenced to a fine

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The Sovetsky District Court of Makhachkala sentenced three guards from whose protection the suspect Akhmed Magomedov, suspected of committing dangerous crimes, escaped. All three will have to pay fines.
On September 2, the senior guard of the convoy, Nizami Letifov, the guard, Asildar Alibegov, and the driver, Magomed Ismailov, transported three prisoners accused in the case of a sabotage-terrorist group from the pre-trial detention center to the republican prosecutor's office. At this time the investigator left for lunch. Those brought were handcuffed to the metal railing of the stairs and left alone for a short time: Ismailov went to change his waybill, Letifov went to call his superiors to report the situation, and Alibegov started looking for a chair, as he was tired of standing. Akhmed Magomedov took advantage of the moment, freed his hand from the handcuffs and escaped through the door in the fence grate on the first floor, which turned out to be unlocked that day (during the debate, prosecutor Amalia Ustaeva explained this by saying that the day before the prosecutor's office of the Sovetsky district had moved out of the first floor and the grate was going to be demolished ).
Prosecutor Ustaeva considered the guilt of the defendants to be fully proven, and explained the guards’ failure to admit their guilt by saying that they “do not know their official duties.” Having listed the violations committed by the prosecutor’s office employees who requested that the arrested be brought to them, Ms. Ustaeva asked why, in this case, the senior guard of the convoy did not file a report on these violations. She demanded that all three be found guilty of exceeding official powers (Article 286, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and sentence the defendants Letifov and Alibegov to two, and Ismailov to two and a half years in prison.
In turn, the lawyers said that the article should be imputed to the prosecutors who ordered the arrestees to be transported from the pre-trial detention center to a building that was not properly equipped, and that the defendants themselves should be completely acquitted. Speaking with the last word, Letifov and Alibegov once again emphasized that they did not consider themselves guilty. On Friday, the court heard the last word of the driver Ismailov. He was laconic: “Your Honor, I am innocent. I ask you to acquit me.” After this, judge Magomedrasul Musaev left to pronounce his sentence.
The court found that the guilt of Letifov and Alibegov was fully confirmed during the judicial investigation, but their actions were reclassified. Instead of exceeding official authority, they were found guilty of negligence, that is, improper performance of their duties due to dishonest and negligent attitude towards service (Article 293, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). As for the driver Ismailov, he was convicted under Article 286 for participating in organizing meetings between prisoners under investigation and their relatives (he brought prisoners home, and he himself waited for their return on the street - but there were no escapes). The court decided that all three “will be corrected without isolation from society,” and sentenced them to pay fines: Letifov and Ismailov - in the amount of 180 minimum wages (that is, 18 thousand rubles), Alibegov - 160 minimum wages.
After the judge said “release in the courtroom,” applause rang out. Colleagues of the convicts from the convoy battalion, of whom there were at least two dozen in the hall, applauded. Coming out from behind the fence, Alibegov and Ismailov announced that they would definitely file an appeal to the Supreme Court. Letifov declined to comment.
YULIA Kommersant-RYBINA, Makhachkala

Newspaper “Kommersant” No. 12/P dated January 27, 2003, p. 6

Authors:

Yulia Rybina

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