The arrest of Belov (Potkin) was extended until October 15

Judge of the Khamovniki Court of Moscow Marina Syrov extended until October 15 the term of detention of a member of the political council of the ethnopolitical association "Russian" Alexander Belov (Potkin), Rapsei reports .

“The judge did not allow relatives and the press, referring to the fact that the bailiffs are made by decisions on admission to the meeting room. And Belov abandoned his lawyers in protest,” said defender Sergei Badamshin. According to him, the investigator supported the judge and the actions of the bailiffs and stated that he was afraid for his life.

After the provision of Potkin, the defender, according to the court’s appointment, began in open mode. The accused at the meeting asked him to change the measure of restraint for house arrest.

On October 15, 2014, Potkin was detained, and then arrested under Article 174 of the Criminal Code (legalization of property acquired by other persons illegally). According to the investigation, the politician is involved in the laundering of $ 5 billion stolen from BTA-Bank depositors to its 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. As it became known at the end of April, on this basis the case against Potkin was allocated from the common case of 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.”

On May 15, Potkin filed a complaint about illegal arrest in the ECHR. He emphasized that his persecution was politically motivated. Potkin also noticed that the current Code of Criminal Procedure does not at all provide for an imprisonment of 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.