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The court in Kostroma decided to let go of the ex-head of the headquarters of the Democial of Pivovarov on bail
The Sverdlovsk District Court of Kostroma decided to let go on bail, the co -chair of the St. Petersburg branch of Parnas, the former chief of the election headquarters of the demo Academy in the Kostroma region Andrei Pivovarov. This was reported by the deputy chairman of the party Ilya Yashin.
The court examined the request of the investigator who asked to extend the arrest of Pivovarov for another month. However, the court found that there was no evidence in the case that the detainee could put pressure on witnesses or try to hide.
At a court session, in support of Pivovarov, the head of Parnassus Mikhail Kasyanov spoke. The head of the ICG Lyudmila Alekseev, State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov, ex-head of the capital's PMC Valery Borschev presented their guarantees. Friends of the accused raised 1 million rubles, which they offered as a bail.
According to the law, the deposit must be submitted to the court in the bank. Probably, Pivovarova will have to stay in a pre -trial detention center until Monday, since they are closed at the weekend departments of banks.
Pivovarov and police captain Alexei Nikonorov, an employee of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kostroma rural district,were detained by police operatives at about 23 hours on July 27, although in the documents of the investigation the time for the detention was indicated 4 in the morning of the 28th. As Yashin said, Pivovarov came to the department to check the data of citizens who put signatures to put forward the demo -analysis to the elections to the regional Duma. It was claimed that the policeman led the functionary to his office and asked to wait. Soon after, the operatives burst there and, having detained both, sent them to the regional head of the TFR.
The investigation is carried out by the department of the regional headquarters of the Investigative Committee for the investigation of especially important cases. Part 1 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code (abuse of power), which provides for up to 4 years of the colony, Pivovarov - part 3 of article 272 (unlawful access to computer information, committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy or organized group), the sanction of which is up to 5 years.
July 29, the judge of the Sverdlovsk District Court of Kostroma Dmitry Balaev arrested Nikonorov and Pivovarov for two months ( 
On July 31, Yashin announced that Nikonorov admitted at a confrontation with a politician that he had stipulated him under the pressure of the operatives . The policeman explained that he was threatened by deprivation of liberty if he did not testify to Pivovarov. To the direct question of Pivovarov’s lawyers, whether the politician made the illegal actions imputed to him, Nikonorov answered negatively.
On August 6, Pivovarov was charged with incitement to exceed the official powers (part 4 of Article 33 of Article 286).
On August 11, the Memorial human rights center recognized Pivovarov as political prisoner and demanded that Immediately free him and Nikonorov, "became a hostage to the politically motivated criminal prosecution of Pivovarov."
“The initiation of a criminal case against Andrei Pivovarov is part of the campaign directed against the opposition democratic coalition and the Parnas Party part of the party,” the human rights activists believe. “Regional beatings with obvious violations refused to register the lists of candidates of this political force in the elections to the legislative meetings of the Novosibirsk and Magadan regions, in municipal elections in administrative elections in administrative elections The centers of the Republic of Udmurtia and in the Perm Territory, in other words, wherever Parnassus nominated his candidates. "
On September 14, the TFR initiated a new criminal case against Pivovarov under part 3 of Article 291 of the Criminal Code (giving a bribe for committing knowingly illegal actions), which provides for the eight years of the colony. Nikonorov, respectively, part 3 of Article 290 (receipt of a bribe for illegal actions) was imputed, respectively. At the same time, the charge under Article 286 was removed.