POC: investigator refused Sergei Furgal a medical examination of his lungs

The investigator denied the arrested ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergei Furgal a medical examination of his lungs. Member of the Moscow Public Monitoring Commission Eva Merkacheva told DVHab.ru about this.

The examination is needed to find out the cause of the pathological changes that doctors discovered in one of Furgal’s lungs.

“At the request of Sergei Furgal, last Wednesday [November 18 - OVD-Info ] he underwent a CT scan . He was glad that this happened, since doctors recommended that he undergo the procedure before the end of August. Pathological changes indicating the disease were found in one of the lungs. Its dynamics are unknown. Doctors cannot name a clear reason for the process - this requires a serious examination. But the investigator refused this without giving permission,” the publication quotes Eva Merkacheva as saying.

In September, the court extended Sergei Furgal’s arrest until December 9. He is in custody in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. DVHab.ru writes that during several months of being in the isolation ward, Furgal’s vision deteriorated.

• Members of the POC on August 2 and August 9 spoke about the information isolation in which Sergei Furgal is: no letters are being sent to him. Parcels and money transfers reach Furgal normally.
• On July 9, the then-current governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Sergei Furgal, was detained by FSB officers on suspicion of involvement in a number of contract killings (Article 105 of the Criminal Code). He was taken to Moscow, where, by decision of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow, he was placed in custody until September 9. On July 16, the Moscow City Court rejected the appeal of Furgal’s defense and recognized this decision as legal. On July 20, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Furgal’s resignation from the post of governor and appointed Furgal’s fellow party member in the LDPR, Mikhail Degtyarev, to this post as interim, Mediazona reported .
• Since July 11, in the Khabarovsk Territory and other regions of the country, rallies have been held in support of the arrested ex-governor Sergei Furgal. Until approximately July 18, the Khabarovsk police made almost no attempt to interfere with the protesters, but later law enforcement officers began to detain the protesters. In the overwhelming majority of cases, they were detained after the protests, including on other days, right at home or at work, after which they were taken to police departments and courts, where they were fined or arrested. After the dispersal of the rally on October 10 in Khabarovsk, criminal cases were opened against several people: three under the article on the use of violence against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code) and one under the “Dada” article on repeated violations of the procedure for holding public events (Article 212.1 UK).