The case of Primorsky partisans: the victim asks to free Vadim Kovtun

The widow of the murdered drug dealer Naumov, who was the victim in the case of the Primorsky partisans, during her interrogation on March 31 in the Primorsky Kraisud asked the defendant Vadim Kovtun. This was reported at the FB page "Primorsky partisans.info".

The victim explained that she does not consider Kovtun to be guilty of the death of her husband and does not have property claims to the defendant.

Naumova’s widow also said that she did not know about the involvement of her husband in the drug business.

March 30 - April 1, Judge Marina Karakuyan continued the hearing with the participation of the jury. Previously, she decided to hold meetings every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

The hearings on March 24-25 took place in the absence of jury , since during these meetings, procedural violations in the case were considered. Karakuyan excluded almost a whole volume of evidence from the case file, recognizing them unacceptable.

This week, a number of evidence presented by the prosecutor Andrei Kambolin were excluded from the case - also due to their inadmissibility.

The re -process of the seaside partisans began on March 10 . In May last year, the Supreme Court completely abolished the sentences to Vadim Kovtun, who received 8 years of 2 months of strict regime, and Alexei Nikitin, sentenced to a life sentence in a special regime colony. In addition, from the sentences of three more defendants - Alexander Kovtun (younger brother Vadim), Vladimir Ilyutikov and Maxim Kirillov - an episode of the murder of drug trafficking, committed in the vicinity of the PGT Kirovsky in September 2009, was excluded. The same definition of Kovtun Jr. and Ilyutikov instead of life terms, respectively, was appointed 25 and 24 years of strict regime, and Kirillov reduced the term from 22 to 19 years of strict regime.

Thus, by virtue, the verdict entered into only one person involved in the case - Roman Savchenko - to whom the episode of the murder of drug dealers was not charged. Politzeka reduced the term from 25 to 24 years of strict regime. Since September 2015, Savchenko, who has no diseases and bad habits, has been contained in LIU -1 in Barnaul - the FSINA hospital for alcoholics, drug addicts and convicted with tuberculosis and AIDS.

Meanwhile, Kovtun Sr. and Nikitin were initially not mentioned among the partisans at all. They were arrested only a few weeks after the defeat of the group.

Since the defendants in the case do not have funds for lawyers by proxy, their interests are represented by defenders for their intended purpose. Under these conditions, a significant part of the defense is performed by the persons involved in the case. In particular, at the hearing on March 24-25, Karakuyan satisfied a number of petitions filed by the defendants.

So, unacceptable evidence was recognized as a confession. The judge agreed that the detainee was not explained the right to use the services of a lawyer and that the document itself was drawn up in the absence of a defender.

The turnout of Nikitin was in one of the three volumes of business, which disappeared in the summer of 2012. Their whereabouts have not yet been established, and Judge Dmitry Grishchenko , who led the first partisan process, worked, as now Karakuyan, with copies of materials. Meanwhile, on the original, Nikitin's explicit was clearly visible traces of blood.

On March 24-25, the judge, at the request of the Kovtun Sr., excluded from the case a check of Nikitin’s testimony on the spot and all the protocols of his interrogations carried out with the participation of the state lawyer Nikolaev. The reason was that the lawyer was the brother of the investigator in the case.