RBC: high-ranking security officials from Karachay-Cherkessia will be interrogated by the Investigative Committee in the case of Senator Arashukov

The Investigative Committee will interrogate officers from the Investigative Committee and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Karachay-Cherkessia in the case of Senator Rauf Arashukov, RBC reports , citing sources familiar with the investigation.

In particular, according to the publication, on the morning of February 6, the first deputy head of the Investigative Committee’s department for Karachay-Cherkessia, Kazbek Bulatov, flew to Moscow for interrogation.

RBC sources also said that four employees of the republican departments of law enforcement agencies were called to the Investigative Committee to carry out investigative actions. Among them is the head of Center “E” for Karachay-Cherkessia, Timur Betuganov.

The publication notes that Betuganov worked on the case of the murder in 2010 of the leader of the Circassian movement “Adyge-Khase” Aslan Zhukov, in which the senator was accused of involvement.

Earlier, relatives of Zhukov, as well as of another murdered man, adviser to the president of the republic Fral Shebzukhov, told Znak.com that Betuganov and Bulatov were close friends of Arashukov.

Rauf Arashukov was detained on January 30 at a meeting of the Federation Council. Later he was accused of organizing two murders (Part 3 of Article 33, paragraphs “g” and “h” of Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code), putting pressure on a witness (Part 4 of Article 309 of the Criminal Code) and participation in a criminal community (Part 3 of Article 210 of the Criminal Code ).

Together with Arashukov, his father Raul Arashukov and brother Ruslan Arashukov, as well as three other defendants in the case of a criminal community (Article 210 of the Criminal Code) and fraud (Article 159 of the Criminal Code) were sent to the pre -trial detention center. According to investigators, they were involved in the theft of gas worth more than 30 billion rubles from Gazprom.