Potkin filed an arrest complaint to the ECHR

Member of the political council of the ethnopolitical association "Russians" Alexander Belov (Potkin), concluded in a pre -trial detention center on charges of laundering money and extremism, filed a complaint about illegal arrest in the ECHR. This was reported by "Vedomosti" with reference to the lawyer "Agora" Irina Khrunova, who represents the interests of Politzek.

In the complaint, Potkin emphasized that his persecution was politically motivated. He also drew attention to the fact that the current Code of Criminal Procedure does not provide for an imprisonment in a pre -trial detention center on charges of laundering money (the case of extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened against a politician after arrest). The initiation of the case under the economic article of the Criminal Code, Potkin said, is practiced by the authorities to publicly discredit the opposition.

If the Strasbourg court accepts a complaint to the consideration, he, the publication notes, will have to investigate the practice of arrests on economic articles in the formal ban on sending suspects and accused of them in jail.

Potkin was arrested in October 2014 under article 174 of the Criminal Code (legalization of property acquired by other persons illegally). The politician is claimed to be laundered by 5 billion dollars stolen from BTA-Bank depositors to his former owner Mukhtar Ablyazov.

Later, against Potkin, at the request from Kazakhstan, another thing was opened - under the "extremist" article 282 of the Criminal Code (excitement of hatred or enmity). He was excited after the house was discovered at the policies of questionnaires with personal data of Kazakhstan citizens, collected in a folder with the inscription "Zhanaozen". In December 2011, in the city of Zhanaozen and the village of Shetpe, the Mangistau region of Kazakhstan, there were unrest in which 15 people were killed and another 100 were injured. In this case, Potkin had a suspect for several months, but in the future he was an official charge.

Meanwhile, according to Article 151 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (investigation), the Ministry of Internal Affairs is engaged in the laundering of money, while the investigation of cases under the 282nd article belongs to the competence of the TFR. On this basis, as it became known at the end of April, the case against Potkin was allocated from the general case about laundering the money of the Kazakhstan "BTA-Bank" to separate production and transferred from the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Investigative Committee .

Potkin himself previously stated that he was arrested after he refused to participate in the murder of Igor Kolomoisky - the Ukrainian oligarch and the then governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region. “It was about organizing the liquidation, murder or lobbying of arrest in France Igor Kolomoisky,” the political prisoner said. “Apparently, realizing that I would not participate in such projects, they decided to sacrifice me (President of Kazakhstan Nursultan) to Nazarbayev.”

Potkin since December has been contained in the SIZO-1 FSIN, located on the territory of the Moscow pre-trial detention center "Sailor Silence". In March, Politzeck was sent to a stationary psychiatric examination to the center named after Serbian, and at the end of the examination, the FSIN was returned to the pre-trial detention center-1. Potkin’s defense stated that both the Politzeck premises in this pre -trial detention center, and his sending him to a stationary psycho -sexpertise was undertaken by the result of pressure on him.