Belykh: My arrest is "settings"

The governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh said that his arrest is a "bedroom". According to Open Russia, he told about this a member of the PMC, human rights activist Zoe Light. According to the Belykh, he wrote a letter to the chief editor of Echo Alexei Venediktov. “I have to explain what happened. After all, this is a setup,” the arrested governor said.

According to him, he began a hunger strike in a pre -trial detention center, because he does not receive drugs that he should take with food.

“I am starving, but not in protest. I wait until they give me the medicines that I need. I have compiled a list of things that I need in the pre -trial detention center, I am waiting for a lawyer to hand this list to my wife. I wrote a statement to the investigator that I ask him to allow me to meet with my lawyer Vadim Prokhorov,” the Belykh said.

On the eve of the Moscow Komsomolets published an “interview” with the governor, which was supposedly taken from him by journalist Eva Merkachev. The material says that the whites finds "positive moments" in his stay in the pre -trial detention center. “Firstly, I am losing weight. Secondly, I will be happy to stay alone with myself and literature,” the words of the whites are given in the material.

Meanwhile, Zoya Svetova claims that he did not give white interviews to anyone. “This was not an interview, but our conversation with him. Participated: Members of the PMC, Eve Merkachev and I. There were two employees of the Lefortovo pre -trial detention center. So this is not an interview, but just a story about the first hours and days of the next governor in the former KGB -FSB pre -trial detention center,” the human rights activist wrote on her Facebook.

“This pre -trial detention center is designed for strict isolation of special prisoners in resonant matters. There people are subjected to all sorts of sophisticated psychological torture. The main one is isolation. The biggest shock from Nikita Belykh for me, like this person, who read a lot of books, did not know what a setup did not know that it was not worth testifying without his lawyer,” wrote Svetova, ”wrote Sveta

According to her, now he does not allow his lawyer by agreement to the governor. “He was not given pills, explaining it to him by good, because they don’t know if he can take these pills. What kind of nonsense? A person says that he can’t take it without pills, they measure sugar and say: everything is normal, we won’t give pills,” writes Svetova.

On June 24, the whites were detained red-handed when receiving money in a bar located on the 21st floor of the Lotta Plaza complex. The operatives demonstrated traces on his hands from the governor from the bills marked with a special solution.

"According to the investigation, Nikita Belykh personally and through an intermediary received bribes on a particularly large amount of 400 thousand euros (which corresponds to 24.1 million rubles) for performing actions in favor of the bribe giver and controlled by him" Novovytsky skiing plant "and LLC" Forestry Management Company ", as well as for general patronage and connivance in the service of the Government of the Kirov region of control The progress of implementation by enterprises of investment projects and conducting entrepreneurial activities in the Kirov region, ”the SK said in a statement.

On June 25, the judge of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow Arthur Karpov arrested Belykh for two months, until August 24 ( responses ). The court rejected the petition of the governor and his defense, who asked him to let him go on bail or under house arrest in the village near Moscow.

White was charged under part 6 of Article 290 (receiving a bribe on an especially large amount), which provides for a punishment in the form of 15 years in prison.