The court left Furgal in custody. Doctors in the pre-trial detention center forbade him to participate in meetings after Covid

The Moscow City Court rejected the petition of the defense of the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Sergei Furgal, to change the preventive measure and left him in custody in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center, according to the Furgal Headquarters telegram channel.

The politician participated in the consideration of the complaint via video link, at the end of the meeting he became ill. Earlier, the doctors of the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center forbade Sergei Furgal to participate in meetings due to his health condition after suffering a coronavirus. about this . wrote ITAR-TASS

• FSB officers detained Sergei Furgal in July 2020 on suspicion of involvement in a number of contract killings in 2004 and 2005. The accusation is based on the testimony of Nikolai Mistryukov, who is an accomplice in the case.
• The official was taken to Moscow, where he was subsequently arrested. Later, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Furgal's resignation from the post of governor and appointed Mikhail Degtyarev, Furgal's fellow party member in the Liberal Democratic Party, to this post.
• in Russian cities have been held From the moment the ex-official was detained , actions in support of him . During the first week, the police in Khabarovsk almost did not try to interfere with the protesters, but later law enforcement officers began to detain the protesters and initiate administrative and, in some cases, criminal cases against them.