SK asked Ignatenko not to be afraid of reprisals

The official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia Vladimir Markin said that extradition to Russia does not threaten the former first deputy prosecutor of the Moscow Region Alexander Ignatenko, Kommersant writes.

Ignatenko, who was waiting in Poland, a decision on his extradition to Russia filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), his lawyer Alexander Perepelkin said. The appeal claims that in his homeland he is facing extrajudicial reprisal.

When the prosecutor speaks of the possibility of extrajudicial reprisal, he talks about this with the knowledge of the matter, international justice should take this into account as an expert opinion, says lawyer Karina Moskalenko. “As a prosecutor, Ignatenko knows well in what unequal position the accused party is, and can imagine the hopelessness of his protection,” the Vedomosti newspaper Vedomosti quotes in the article only not to Russia! ” (No. 80, dated May 3).

In the TFR yesterday they said that Alexander Ignatenko has no reason to fear for his life and security. “We believe that all law enforcement agencies are interested in the early completion of the investigation of this criminal case,” Markin said.

Ignatenko is accused of receiving bribes from the organizer of the illegal casino Ivan Nazarov and major fraud. In January 2012, he was detained in Poland. The ex-prosecutor asked him to be released on the basis of a ban on departure from Poland, but the state prosecution considered that the pledge and subscription about the not to leave were a sufficient measure of restraint for him.

According to the investigation, Nazarov organized a network of underground casinos in 15 cities of the Moscow Region. Law enforcement agencies believe that senior employees of the prosecutor's office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs were involved in the illegal business, which brought income from 5 to 10 million dollars a month.