The Committee against torture accuses the former applicant who has received a deal with the police

The Committee against torture filed an application for his former client Alexander Kabanov, who, initially accusing the police of torture, later abandoned his testimony in exchange for money transferred to him by these police officers. This was reported on the organization’s website. The checkpoint asks to check the actions of Kabanov, police officers, as well as the investigator of the Investigative Committee, in whose office an agreement was concluded, for the presence of a crime against justice in them.

Kabanov, a gas -electric welder from Nizhny Novgorod, turned to human rights defenders on December 24 . He said that in the evening of November 26, the employees of the Kstovsky district police department of the Nizhny Novgorod region Arefiev and Pans abducted him from work, brought him to the department and there, together with two other police officers, were beaten and intimidated, demanding to confess in the collar of a pawnshop in the summer, to which the worker did not have a worker. Without obtaining recognition, Arefiev fabricated an administrative protocol on Kabanov on petty hooliganism, according to which the welder was given six days of arrest.

After the deadline for the arrest, Kabanov went to the doctor. About a week he spent in the hospital with a concussion, and then for several weeks he was treated on an outpatient basis, remaining on the sick leave. Meanwhile, on December 22-23, Kabanov’s apartments and his mother were searches in the case of robbing a pawnshop.

Along with the checkpoint, the worker also turned to the police, the prosecutor’s office and the TFR with statements about illegal detention and the use of violence.

However, in January 2015, Kabanov refused the help of human rights activists, explaining that in exchange for money he changed his testimony and stated that he had stipulated the police out of revenge on charges of petty hooliganism, and he really committed this petty hooliganism, although the test conducted by the Investigative Committee had already proved the opposite. The welder noticed that he did not have time to seek justice, while the police offered him a simple and quick option to solve the problem. The transaction was concluded in the office of the investigator of the Investigative Committee, who conducted a pre -investigation verification at the request of the victim.

“We believe that Alexander Kabanov laid the law when he changed the testimony in return for monetary compensation,” the checkpoint said in this connection. “Now police officers can leave the responsibility established by the Code, they will continue to service the internal affairs bodies and, perhaps, will apply torture again next time.”

The organization also noted that, although one of its tasks is to restore applicants' right, public interest is in the first place. "We protect human dignity and law, and not the material well -being of the victim of torture," the report said.

"I note that the abuse of authority belongs to the category of public charges and criminal cases or a criminal case or verification cannot be terminated based on the reconciliation of the parties," said Dmitry Utkin, head of the investigation department of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the checkpoint. "This means that the arguments set forth in the initial statement of Alexander Kabanov must be carefully verified. If there are collection if there are collected collections Evidence of a crime (medical examination, testimony of witnesses), a criminal case must be instituted. "