The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested in absentia the former head of the main investigative department of the Investigative Committee Dmitry Dovgiy

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow granted the investigation's request to arrest lawyer Dmitry Dovgiy, accused of attempted fraud. The preventive measure will be in effect for two months from the moment of his detention or extradition to the Russian Federation, the press service of the Moscow courts of general jurisdiction reported.

In a statement from the press service, Dovgy is presented as “a previously convicted lawyer at the Leningrad Region Bar Association.”

Dovgy told TASS that he learned about the arrest in absentia from the media. “I won’t comment, I’m taking care of a child who turned one a week ago,” he said.

Dmitry Dovgy has been put on the wanted list, as follows from the database of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the anonymous telegram channel “VChK-OGPU”, Dovgy is in Israel.

• Dmitry Dovgy is the former head of the main investigative department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Dovgiy was fired from the Investigative Committee in April 2008, and in August he was detained. In 2009, he was sentenced to nine years in prison on charges of bribery and abuse of power. Dovgy did not admit guilt. He was released early in 2015 and became a lawyer. So, in 2021, he represented the interests of the former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergei Furgal.
• After his release from the colony, Dmitry Dovgy said that he had disagreements with the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, on a number of criminal cases, including the case of Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak and FSKN General Alexander Bulbov, whom the investigator considered innocent. Also, Dovgy said, Bastrykin was not satisfied with the fact that he petitioned for the release from custody of Vasily Aleksanyan, a defendant in the YUKOS case.