The defendant in the case against the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Furgal spoke about torture and threats

Andrey Karepov, a defendant in the criminal case against the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Sergei Furgal, spoke about the torture and threats he faced during the investigation. about this He wrote in an Instagram account dedicated to the persecution of Furgal.

“There were both physical and moral torture. I was told several times in all seriousness that they would shoot me! In the presence of lawyers, now, and that they can lift the moratorium! They said that they were acting on behalf of Vladimir Putin, the President of the Russian Federation!” Karepov said.

According to investigators, Karepov was a member of a group organized by Furgal to kill competitors in the scrap metal industry in 2004.

• In October 2021, the Prosecutor General's Office approved the indictment in one of the cases against Sergei Furgal. He was accused of murdering two people by an organized group for mercenary purposes, as well as with the aim of hiding another crime (paragraphs “a, g, h, k” of Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code), of attempted murder by an organized group in a generally dangerous way for mercenary purposes. purposes (clauses “a, f, g, h” of part 2 of article 105 with the application of part 3 of article 30 of the Criminal Code) and in group illegal acquisition and storage of weapons and ammunition (part 3 of article 222 of the Criminal Code). The investigation believes that Furgal and Nikolai Mistryukov created an organized group in 2004 to kill competitors in the scrap metal industry. The group allegedly included Andrei Karepov and Mikhail Timofeev, and the perpetrators of the crimes were Marat Kadyrov and Andrei Paley. In November, Furgal was charged with new charges - under articles on the creation of a criminal community and on seven counts of fraud on an especially large scale .
• FSB officers detained Sergei Furgal in July 2020. The official was taken to Moscow, where he was subsequently arrested. Later, Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the resignation of Furgal from the post of governor. On October 1, Furgala was once again extended his detention in the pre-trial detention center.
• Since the detention of the ex-governor in July 2020, have been held actions in support of him in Russian cities. Protesters believe that the persecution is due to the fact that Furgal won the gubernatorial election against the United Russia candidate, and also to the fact that the region showed one of the lowest voting results for amendments to the Constitution. 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.