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Date
02/27/2018
Author
Сергей Соколов
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Novaya Gazeta
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Investigative impasse

Three years ago, Boris Nemtsov was killed. Why are they not looking for a customer

The investigation of the murder of Boris Nemtsov will someday enter the textbooks of forensics-as a sad illustration of the professional powerlessness of law enforcement agencies in the country, which is not controlled by the law, but "political expediency." As an example of an actually revealed crime, which nevertheless turned into a hopeless “hanging”.

The place of the murder of Boris Nemtsov. Photo: Evgeny Feldman / "New Gazeta"

Three days after the execution on the large Moskvoretsky bridge, the names of the suspects became known to the investigation, a week later many were arrested. Almost everything except:

  • accomplice of the murder of Beslan Shavanov , who died during the detention;

  • Major of the battalion "North" of the internal troops of the Russian Federation Ruslan Geremeyev , whom the investigation for a long time considered the organizer of the crime, but could not even interrogate;

  • And his driver Ruslan Mukhutdinov , who disappeared without a trace.

All arrested: Killer Zaur Dadaev, the Gubashev brothers, Temirlan Eskerkhanov and Khamzat Bakhaev - received deadlines, and the search for the customer and other participials were allocated in separate production. What, apparently, the whole investigation ended.

No, formally the investigation continues and, unlike the case of Anna Politkovskaya and the case of Paul Khlebnikov, is in the competence of the same management, consisting of investigators in particularly important cases under the chairman of the UK, which began the search for killers. The head of the investigation group did not change - papers on the extension of the investigation periods come to representatives of the victims signed by General Tyvich.

But nothing is known about the progress of the investigation. Whether the investigation group remained, or General Tutichevich works alone, what investigative actions are carried out, what examinations are appointed - all these issues, according to the lawyer of the daughter of Nemtsov, Zhanna Vadim Prokhorov, remain unrequited.

“Most likely, there are no investigative actions, the UK just hopes that the already convicts will speak. However, it seems to me that they are unlikely to allow them to do this, ”Prokhorov comments on the situation

And he adds that in the near future he and the lawyer Olga Mikhailov will be sent to the UK to provide for everything that was developed by the investigation in recent years. However, lawyers look at the success of this enterprise with skepticism.

The skepticism has reason. For example, in the case of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, in which the “Chechen trace” is equally clearly present, the victims and their lawyers have not received a single piece of paper since the verdict to the executors entered into legal force, and the customer’s search was entrusted to the lower unit of the UK. And the point is not even an analogy - after all, the search for the customer of the murder of Nemtsov has no prospects without clarifying several key points, the list of which makes the very obvious that further investigation in the current political situation is hardly possible.

First of all, it is necessary to interrogate Major Ruslan Geremeyev, a close relative of the deputy Adam Delimkhanov and Senator Suleiman Geremeyev, who, in turn, enter the immediate environment of Ramzan Kadyrov. Twice, the investigation came out with a proposal for the absentee arrest of Geremeyev and his declaration as an alleged organizer of the murder, and twice the leadership of the UK prevented this. Geremeyev was transferred to the status of a witness, but never questioned. The investigation, you see, he did not open the door, and therefore the Russian security forces were not able to talk to him, and the Geremeyev ignored the judicial agenda for no explanation, but with the approval of the head of Chechnya.

Next. It is necessary to establish which of the representatives of special services in cars without numbers came to negotiations in the Chechen village of Dzhalka, where the suspect officer of the Russian Federation Ruslan Geremeyev was hidden under the protection of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs. What was the essence of negotiations, who was their initiator and what is the result.

February 25, 2018. The procession on Christmas Boulevard. Photo: Vlad Dokshin / "New Gazeta"

It is necessary to find out

Who from the leadership of Chechnya, the leaders of the Republican Ministry of Internal Affairs and the immediate environment of Kadyrov attended a meeting collected immediately after the arrest of Killer Dadaev, everything in the same village of Dzhalka, and interrogate the participants in the meeting, during which, according to Novaya Gazeta, the murder of Boris Nemtsov was discussed.

It is necessary to investigate the circumstances of the death during the detention of Beslan Shavanov in Grozny. Whether he himself was really blown up on a grenade, or was he helped. How “to the aid” of the federal security forces came Chechen police along with the Deputy Minister of the Republican Ministry of Internal Affairs and military personnel of the North battalion, in which both Geremeyev and Dadaev served.

And finally, the FSO must either prove that the video surveillance cameras installed in the Kremlin area do not capture the Big Moskvoretsky Bridge, or still provide videos. It is clear that the leadership of the special services does not seek to disclose the technical details of the work, “highlighting” the location of video cameras and the sectors on which they work. Yes, probably this is GOSTain. Well, let the investigator give the appropriate non -disclosure subscription.

But, alas, all this for the investigation seems to be insoluble.