Poland deported to Russia an ex-FSB officer who told Gulagu.net about the fabrication of cases of terrorist attacks in Dagestan

Poland deported ex-Dagestan FSB officer Emran Navruzbekov, who asked for political asylum in the country. about this Sota was informed by lawyer Karinna Moskalenko. Navruzbekov himself confirmed this information to the publication “That’s So”.

According to Moskalenko, Navruzbekov, who last year told the human rights project Gulagu.net how criminal cases on terrorism charges are being fabricated in Dagestan, was sent to Russia under the pretext that he poses a “threat to the security of Poland.”

Navruzbekov’s wife Irina was given political asylum, Moskalenko noted. The lawyer added that the Polish authorities “ignored the urgent complaint filed today with the ECHR, the consideration of which should take place within 24 hours.”

After Navruzbekov was handed over to the Russian side, contact with him was lost, Irina reported to “That’s So.” “I received the documents yesterday. But what will I do here without my husband? They gave protection. Why do I need this protection? I was left with nothing. How will I feed my children? I don’t know what will happen to my husband, I already heard screams when I spoke to him. They will finish him off now,” said Navruzbekov’s wife.

The Navruzbekovs left for Poland in 2017, but then the ex-FSB officer’s application for political asylum was rejected. The family has since appealed the decision. In October 2022, Navruzbekov applied again, his wife told the Agency, and since then has been in a refugee camp in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship.

According to the publication, Navruzbekov was detained on May 17 during a document check in the camp and was arrested due to a possible violation of the rules of conduct. On the same day, the court banned Navruzbekov from entering Poland and other Schengen countries, after which he was placed in a center for foreigners in Przemysl.

In a December interview project, with the founder of the Gulagu.net Vladimir Osechkin, Emran Navruzbekov claimed that “people connected with the special services” are carrying out “controlled terrorist attacks” in the region and that operatives of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs are planting drugs and weapons on people.

In an interview with Caucasus.Realities, Navruzbekov said that in 2017, his superiors wanted to send him to Turkey “to collect information and counter opposition activists who emigrated there and wanted natives of Dagestan, Chechnya and other republics,” but he did not want to do this and left through Belarus to Poland. Navruzbekov also said that pressure was exerted on his relatives in Dagestan.