Expertise: marijuana in Titiev’s case may contain a small amount of a narcotic substance

The marijuana that the police allegedly found in the car of the head of the Grozny branch of the Memorial Human Rights Center, Oyub Titiev, may be weed and contain a small amount of the narcotic substance. This was stated at the meeting by specialists from the ANO “Forensic Expertise”, who were interrogated at the request of Titiev’s lawyers, reports the telegram channel “The Case of Oyub Titiev | Human Rights Center 'Memorial'".

In addition, experts noted that the forensic examination was carried out incorrectly; it was not clear from the documents whether drying was carried out and, if so, whether it was done correctly. However, the fingerprints found on the bag of marijuana could not be identified.

Criminologist Georgy Cherepenko noted in court that the experts who studied the prints on the package did not use all possible methods to identify them.

UPD The title has been changed. The original formulation about “non-narcotic” marijuana is incorrect, since the plant always contains a narcotic substance, but its amount may be small and not fall under the drug article.

• The head of the Grozny branch of the Memorial Human Rights Center, Oyub Titiev, was detained on January 9 - the police allegedly found a bag of marijuana in his car and took the man to the department. Two days later, Titiev was arrested . The human rights activist himself claims that the drugs were planted on him.
• On January 19, a search was carried out at the organization’s Grozny office. During the investigation, police found cigarette butts that looked like cigarettes that had been gutted and then filled with something. Later, an expert from the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs came to the conclusion that the two seized cigarettes contained marijuana. However, none of the Memorial employees smoke.
• On March 29, the investigator refused to grant the request of Titiev’s lawyer to request recordings from surveillance cameras. According to the human rights activist, they should show how the police first took him to the police department, and then took him back to the road, where they staged a search of the car and the discovery of drugs.