In St. Petersburg, the ex-court secretary had his arrest extended at an appeal hearing

The city court of St. Petersburg, at a meeting to consider the appeal of the defense, extended the arrest of Alexander Eyvazov, the former secretary of the Oktyabrsky court. This is reported by Interfax with reference to the lawyer Ivan Pavlov.

Pavlov noted that the court in this situation violates the law. The defense challenged the judge and made a statement about the commission of a crime by the court and the prosecutor.

Eyvazov was arrested until July 21.

• Alexander Eyvazov, 23, former secretary of the Oktyabrsky District Court and member of the United Russia party, was arrested on August 24, 2017. According to investigators, he did not prepare and sign the minutes of the trial within the indicated timeframes because of his personal dislike for Judge Irina Kerro and the desire to cancel the verdict in the criminal case of attempted fraud.

According to Eyvazov himself, he did not draw up the minutes of the court session, and therefore refused to sign it. The former secretary also noted that he was asked to sign the protocol retroactively. At the end of 2016, Alexander Eyvazov resigned from the Oktyabrsky District Court and sent about 80 messages to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Investigative Committee, the Supreme Court, the prosecutor's office and other authorities about massive violations in court. Among them, he pointed out the falsification of court records, "informal" relations between judges and prosecutors, humiliation and insults against the defendants. The former secretary of the court is accused of crimes of minor and medium gravity - obstruction of the administration of justice (part 3 of article 294 of the Criminal Code) and of slandering a judge (part 1 of article 298.1 of the Criminal Code). In February, Eyvazov's was extended detention beyond the maximum to eight months. According to Article 109 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (terms of detention), a preventive measure can be extended for more than six months at the preliminary investigation stage only by those accused of a serious or especially serious crime. * April 3 Eyvazov case went to court.