One of the Russians arrested in Istanbul on suspicion of involvement in the murder of the administrator of the Kavkaz Center website, recognized as extremist in Russia, turned out to be Chechen crime boss Valid Lurakhmaev, known by the nickname Validol. “We had operational information that Validol was appearing in Turkey, but local authorities stubbornly refused to cooperate with us.

The Solnechnogorsk garrison military court sentenced the actor who played the role of security chief Sasha Bely in the TV series “Brigada”, Dmitry Gumenetsky, to eight years in prison, from whose garage 280 kilograms of concentrate for the production of “spice” were seized. As told the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, Gumenetsky will serve his sentence in a maximum security colony.

All judges of the Beloyarsky District Court of the Sverdlovsk Region refused to consider the case of torture at the Zarechny police station in 2014, in which five police officers were involved. this TASS reports with reference to assistant judge Svetlana Tikhonova.

Crimean Prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya suspended the activities of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars, handing a copy of the relevant document to representatives of the public association, TASS reports. “Today I made a decision to suspend the activities of the public association “Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People” in order to prevent violations of federal legislation,” the prosecutor told the agency. Earlier, Poklonskaya demanded that the Majlis be recognized as an extremist organization.

The court denied parole to former policeman and Euromaidan participant in Kyiv, Alexander Kostenko, convicted in Crimea. this Kostenko’s lawyer Dmitry Sotnikov announced on his Facebook, noting that the court’s decision will be appealed. According to Kostenko, at the court hearing, a representative of the colony said that Kostenko was not employed, since there were no jobs in the colony.

On April 11, the Leninsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod ordered the widow of Major Sergei Teryaev, who died in the war in Chechnya, Evgenia Teryaev, to return to the state a survivor’s pension for four years in the amount of 626 thousand rubles. This was reported by the online publication “Caucasian Knot”.

The head of the Tyumen police department No. 6 of Tyumen, Alexander Radachinsky, called an immediate response team to the local restaurant “Seven Fridays” after the security guards of the establishment refused to let him inside without going through a search. The incident was caught on video published by Nasha Gazeta-Tyumen. The incident captured on the recording occurred on the evening of March 19.

The accused in the case of the events on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on May 6, 2012, Maxim Panfilov, was assigned a psychiatric examination. This was reported by the Moscow agency with reference to Panfilov’s lawyer Sergei Panchenko. “Today I was in the isolation ward with Maxim, he was scheduled for a psychiatric examination,” the lawyer said.

The Investigative Committee decided to refuse to initiate a criminal case due to the absence of a crime at the request of a resident of the village of Kialim, Chelyabinsk region, Alena Avdeeva, according to whom the doctors who allegedly performed a caesarean section on her reported that she was not pregnant.

In the Kemerovo region, the issue of initiating a criminal case against a 25-year-old resident of the city of Kaltan, suspected of deliberate destruction or damage to someone else's property (Article 167 of the Criminal Code), is being decided. This was reported on the website of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Objects similar to hand grenade launchers were found in the trunk of a car near house No. 6 on Tverskaya Street in Moscow. This was reported by a correspondent of the Kommersant newspaper from the scene. The Volkswagen car, in the trunk of which a weapon was found, is being inspected by sappers and police. The driver of the car said that traffic police stopped him for a routine check. He claims that the objects found are mock-ups of grenade launchers.

The court in Chita will consider a criminal case against a police officer who is accused of exceeding his official powers (points “a”, “b”, “c” of Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code). He mistook a random passerby for a murder suspect and shot him with a submachine gun, according to the website of the Trans-Baikal Territory prosecutor's office. The incident occurred on August 28, 2015. The policeman was on duty, patrolling the area of ​​Yaroslavsky and Lazo streets.

The prosecutor's office of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug asks to issue a resolution to apply compulsory medical measures against a resident of the city of Labytnangi, who beat her young son after an unsuccessful attempt to withdraw money from an ATM. According to the department's website, the investigation began due to the widespread publicity received by a video showing a mother torturing her son under CCTV cameras.

The head of the engineering, technical support and weapons warehouse of the security department of the Moscow pre-trial detention center No. 2 “Butyrka” was detained after a random search at the Dostoevskaya metro station. Dozens of cartridges were found in her bag, the Moscow agency reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies.

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the appointment of heads of departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs created on the basis of the liquidated Federal Drug Control Service and the Federal Migration Service, according to the Kremlin website. In accordance with the decree, Andrei Khrapov, who had held the position of deputy head of the main criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs since 2013, became the head of the drug trafficking control department.