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| Judge demanded that the victims appear in the Dzhabiev case |
| 2024-01-16 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] The defense insisted on the need for the presence in court of Nikolai Tskhovrebov and Gersan Kulumbegov, recognized as victims in the case of the death of Inal Dzhabiev, and the court decided to forcibly bring them to the next hearing. As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on October 27, 2023, the South Ossetian prosecutor's office reported that the accused had been familiarized with the materials of the case regarding the death of Inal Dzhabiev, and it had been submitted to court. At the first court hearings, indictments were read to Dzhumber Bibilov, Marat Khugaev, Andrey Dzhioev, Atsamaz Naniev, Irbeg Slanov, Sergei Kozonov, Zaur Gogichaev and Alan Bagaev. The defense does not admit a single article of the accusation, said the lawyers of the criminal police officers. On December 4, it became known that one of the defendants in the case, former security officer Marat Khugaev, was hospitalized in serious condition after a hunger strike, including a dry one, which he had been carrying out since November 15 in protest against his detention and arrest. On December 21, it became known that Khugaev had resumed eating. On August 17, 2020, in Tskhinvali, an official car in which the Minister of Internal Affairs Igor Naniev was was fired upon; no one was injured. Together with Inal Dzhabiev, Nikolai Tskhovrebov and Gersan Kulumbegov were detained in the case of the assassination attempt on the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia Igor Naniev. After Dzhabiev’s death, they were released on their own recognizance. At the court hearing in the case of Dzhabiev’s death, Kulumbegov stated that after his arrest, he was brought from the temporary detention facility in a mask to the criminal police and beaten. Nikolai Tskhovrebov also reported that physical violence was used against him within the walls of law enforcement agencies: in the city police department and the border service. On July 15, 2022, the Supreme Court of South Ossetia dismissed the criminal case against Inal Dzhabiev and Nikolai Tskhovrebov, the second accused of attempting to assassinate the minister. The court decided that no evidence was received of their involvement in the assassination attempt. The Tskhinvali City Court decided to pay two million rubles in compensation for moral damage to the relatives of Inal Dzhabiev, who died after interrogation by the police in the case of an attempt on the life of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia. The consideration of the case regarding the death of Inal Dzhabiev continued today in the Tskhinvali City Court. The victims, Gersan Kulumbegov and Nikolai Tskhovrebov, did not come to the hearing, but the defense considered their presence in court necessary, the Res news agency reported today with reference to the press service of the Supreme Court of South Ossetia. “The prosecutor filed a motion to read out the testimony of the victims without their presence, but the defense asked to reject the prosecutor’s motion, citing the principle of publicity, immediacy and orality, as well as in view of the legality of the verdict, noting their presence as necessary,” the agency quoted the press representative as saying today. court services. The court decided “to recognize the appearance of Kulumbegov and Tskhovrebov as mandatory and to force them to be brought to the court hearing on January 17,” the publication says. Inal Dzhabiev died on August 28, 2020 after interrogation in the case of an attempt on the life of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia. His death caused mass protests and a political crisis in South Ossetia: 16 members of parliament from the fall of 2020 to February 2021 boycotted parliamentary meetings, preventing a quorum from being reached. As a result, the work of parliament was completely paralyzed. At the same time, Dzhabiev’s relatives, dissatisfied with the progress of the investigation, organized a 24-hour protest, which took place in a square in Tskhinvali from December 4, 2020 to February 26, 2021. The opposition and protesters sought the dismissal of Prosecutor General Uruzmag Dzhagaev, but stopped the protests without achieving their goals. In October 2022, the Tskhinvali City Court returned the criminal case of death after interrogation of Inal Dzhabiev for additional investigation to the Prosecutor General's Office of South Ossetia. At that time, seven security officials were charged in the case. The Prosecutor General's Office of South Ossetia announced new defendants in the case in March. Among them are former Prosecutor General Uruzmag Dzhagaev, he was arrested in absentia and put on the wanted list, former head of the Tskhinvali Internal Affairs Directorate Uruzmag Margiev, who is under recognizance not to leave. The former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia, Igor Naniev, has been put on the wanted list. All of them are accused of abuse of power. |
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