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| Charges brought against arrested Ingush police officers |
| 2023-10-28 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [LavkazUzel] The Ingush police officers arrested in the case of violence against the detainee were charged with abuse of power and extortion. The investigation suggested that after the detainee refused to incriminate himself, they demanded his apartment in Karabulak. As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on October 20, investigators announced the detention of four police officers suspected in a criminal case of abuse of power with the use of violence; on October 22, they were arrested. According to investigators, on October 5, four employees of the Malgobeksky Ministry of Internal Affairs department groundlessly detained and took a 31-year-old local resident to the police department. Then, according to the case file, they used violence against him, demanding that he confess to involvement in drug trafficking. Investigators also believe that the police extorted money from the detainee. A criminal case against four police officers is being investigated under articles of abuse of official powers with the use of violence by a group of persons by prior conspiracy out of mercenary or other personal interest (Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and extortion in order to obtain property on an especially large scale (Part 3 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the Russian Investigative Committee for Ingushetia reported today in its Telegram channel. The investigation reported that employees of the Malgobeksky department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, using violence, demanded that the “wrongfully detained” local resident confess to drug trafficking. “After the man refused to admit his guilt, the accused, continuing to threaten, demanded that the ownership of an apartment belonging to the victim, located in the city of Karabulak, be transferred to them free of charge, under the guise of selling it to a person controlled by them,” the department said in a statement on its Telegram channel. In Ingushetia, there are frequent cases of security forces using prohibited interrogation methods, but very few are brought to justice. At the same time, in the country as a whole, not a single sentence has been passed under the article on abuse of power with the use of torture since its introduction into the Criminal Code, noted human rights activists interviewed by the Caucasian Knot. |
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