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RTVI: The detainer Senator Arashukova Bastrykin was friends with his family and often stayed in his estate
The head of the Investigative Committee (SK) of Russia Alexander Bastrykin, who participated in the detention of Senator Rauf Arashukov, was on friendly relations with him and his father Raul Arashukov, also detained, and more than once visited their family estate. This was announced by the source of RTVI , close to the investigation.
According to him, Bastrykin was a frequent guest of the Senator in his estate in Habez (Karachay-Cherkessia): the publication publishes a photo of the head of the UK, taken in the summer of 2018. However, according to the pictures, one cannot draw an unambiguous conclusion about where they are made. On two of them, Bastrykin poses behind the wheel of retro cars, on the third - on horseback on a horse. The Investigative Committee has not yet commented on these photos.
Information about the rest of the SK Chairman in Khabez appeared in the fall of 2018, when it became known that Arashukov appears in the case of a custom-made murder of the deputy chairman of the Adyghe Hase public youth movement Aslan Zhukov and the adviser to the head of Karachay-Cherkessia Fral Shebzukhov.
According to information from open sources, Bastrykin was resting in the hotel complex "Adi-Palace" owned by the Arashukov family. There is a stable, a retro car park, which are part of the personal collection of the senator, a source of mineral waters.
A friend with Arashukov, journalist Maxim Shevchenko, confirmed on the air of RTVI that the pictures with Bastrykin were taken at the Adi-Palace, and the cars from photographs belong to the senator and are known to all Karachay-Cherkessia. Arashukova Shevchenko described as a “very strong and influential person” with “big acquaintances in power structures”.
Maxim Shevchenko told us that about the cars of Senator Arashukov, in which the head of SK Bastrykin posed, all Karachay-Cherkessia knows https://t.co/vgxqykh5S6 pic.twitter.com/ee2oqvk5tj
- RTVI (@rtvi) January 30, 2019
A detailed material about the Caucasian vacation of Bastrykin on September 3, 2018 was published on his blog by a certain Dmitry Vasilchenko. According to him, the head of the Investigative Committee supposedly "had no idea, in whose sanatorium he drank a mineral water" - "he was frankly framed."
In the post it is noted that Bastrykina constantly shot a local photographer at Adi Palace, and after his departure, Arashukov "began to brag about these photographs." The Arashukov account on Instagram is closed, however, in the screenshot published by "New Izvestia" , it is clear that on Victory Day the Senator rode exactly the same military jeep in which the chairman of the Investigative Committee posed.
“It’s so funny to read now that Senator Arashukov was terrible. The killer and the thief. And his family: killers and thieves. Fake passport. A residence permit in the UAE. Well, the mafia is real. It is good that the“ security forces ”dealt with him. And then - Hop - it turns out that the head of the SK Bastrykin was Arashukov’s friend and was constantly in his estate,” he commented on the material. RTVI Oppositionist Alexei Navalny.
Rauf Arashukov was detained on January 30 during the plenary meeting of the Federation Council after the performance of the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika with an idea of the consent of consent to the removal of immunity from the senator and taking it into custody.
According to the plot of the case, the senator may be involved in the murders of the deputy chairman of the Adyge-Hase public youth movement Karachay-Cherkess Republic Aslan Zhukov and the adviser to the President of the Karachay-Cherkessia, Fly Shebzukhov, as well as the beating of the witness of the murder of Zhukov.
Also, Rauf Arashukov, according to unofficial data, is suspected of organizing the murders of two more people committed in the KCR: the former head of the pre -trial detention center of the city of Cherkessk Khasan Dzhanaev and Ali Afaunov, the head of the Security Service of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Nazir Khapsirokov.
The investigation believes that Arashukov entered the criminal community organized by his father Raul. He was detained on January 30, he is charged with the creation of a criminal community and especially large fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
According to the case file, Arashukov Sr. organized the OPS for the theft of natural gas, PJSC Gazprom, which for several years abducted gas for more than 30 billion rubles, using a scheme with the supply of fuel "dead souls".
Also, Raul Arashukov, according to unofficial data, is suspected of organizing the murder in the late 90s of the Donetsk businessman Boris Khapsirokov, who did not want to pay for the supply of pipes.
Baza telegram channel writes that a fake passport was found at the senator. On it, Arashukov supposedly had to soon fly to the UAE to a permanent place of residence.
Cash, weapons and gold in ingot - an incomplete list of Senator Rauf Arashukov and his relatives seized from Senator. Video: Telegram channel "Tracker whispered" pic.twitter.com/gmjj0tom2q
- MBH Media (@mbkhmedia) January 31, 2019
On the eve of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow, Rauf Arashukov, under the period until March 30, 2019. At the same time, during the interrogation, the senator said that he did not speak sufficiently Russian and demanded that the translator , who was provided to him. Arashukov’s colleague in the Economic Committee, Sergei Kalashnikov, said that Arashukov competently and purely speaks Russian, and the deputy chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation, Alexander Bashkin, doubted that a person who owns the Russian language can become a senator.
In addition, information appeared in the press about the detention of the nephew of Raul Arashukov named Ruslan, who is currently headed by the Astrakhan division of Gazprom Gas Distribution. Ruslan Arashukov began his career in the gas industry with CJSC "Stavropolcaragaz" in 2007. After that, he returned to his native Karachay-Cherkessia, where he headed the branch of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Pyatigorsk LLC and managed gas companies in Adygea. For this he was awarded with diplomas more than once.