A 71-year-old lawyer was detained in Chechnya on suspicion of drug possession. He links the charges to his professional activities
In Grozny, plainclothes police detained 71-year-old lawyer Sergei Marakov. First he was accused of petty hooliganism, and then of drug possession . Lawyer Maxim Kravchenko, who is coordinating legal assistance to Marakov, reported this to Kavkaz.Realii. According to Kravchenko, at the time of his arrest, Marakov was intoxicated; no drugs were found in his body during a medical examination. As Advokatskaya Gazeta writes , police detained Marakov, an employee of the Stavropol branch of the St.