Dagestan: soldier spends five years in slavery

Soldier Anton Kuznetsov, who was considered missing for five years, has returned from Dagestan to the Lipetsk Region. According to his story, he has spent all this time in slavery, where he had been sold by commanders of his unit.

Let us note here that this February the "Caucasian Knot" reported that a local resident was detained in Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, who exploited for almost half a year six regular soldiers with a permit of their commander.

Anton Kuznetsov, a recruit from the Lipetsk Region, went to his service in 2003, and in spring of 2005 he disappeared from his military unit. Documents stated that Anton Kuznetsov deserted in an unknown direction.

According to Anton, commanders of the Makhachkala Military Unit No. 6752, where he had served, handed the soldier over to owners of a private brick-works into eternal use, and then just "forgot" about him. According to his story, there were many such "forgotten" soldiers-recruits, basically from unsafe families, who will be looked for by nobody. They were beaten and forced to work very hard.

As soon as clay in one pit was over, the owners left it and brought their slaves to another area of Dagestan. This winter, he managed to run away together with six other soldiers by breaking the floor of the trailer, where they were kept, as reported by the "Komsomolskaya Pravda".

On March 2, on the next morning after his return to Lipetsk, Anton Kuznetsov appeared, together with his grandmother, to get legalized to the military-investigatory department, aiming to tell about what had happened to him, but the Military Public Prosecutor of Lipetsk Alexander Korobov did not believe his story and ordered to arrest Anton. Later, his grandmother could not contact him.

It cleared out that by the moment of his "desertion" Anton was no longer a regular soldier. Under documents, immediately after arrival to Dagestan he signed a contract and received money for his work. The soldier himself insists that he had not signed any documents.