The militiaman who beat Abkhazia resident to death in Moscow refuses to give testimony

Former militiaman Anver Ibraghimov accused of beating to death Eduard Gurtskaya, resident of Abkhazia, refuses to plead partially guilty.

As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, on November 25, sergeant Anver Ibraghimov suspected of beating to death Eduard Gurtskaya was laid a charge. On November 26, Kuzminskiy district court of Moscow sanctioned his arrest.

"I can say that I did not take part in this and did not do anything," said Ibraghimov before the beginning of the preliminary hearing at Kuzminskiy district court of Moscow where his case was handed over.

According to the defendant, he "simply got at a wrong time to a wrong place". "A different fight took place there, as likely as not," cites "Interfax" the words of the former militiaman.

Magomed Kuraev, the new lawyer of the defendant, said after the court session that Ibraghimov had erroneously pleaded guilty. "He had had a fight with a different man that day. The investigation did not take the trouble to conduct identification," noted Kuraev. The lawyer also said that his defendant was found criminally sane by the forensic psychiatric expert examination.

According to the legislation, preliminary hearings are conducted in camera. Meanwhile, more than ten relatives of the deceased resident of Abkhazia attend the court hearings, reports ITAR-TASS.

Ibraghimov is accused under articles 286 and 111 of the RF CC - misuse of powers and infliction of serious harm to health causing death of the victim. According to Vladimir Markin, official representative of RF ICPO, the investigation has already collected sufficient proof.

Anatoly Bagmet, head of the capital's Investigation Department of Russian ICPO thinks that criminal responsibility may be brought against two more former militia officers - junior sergeant Victor Kuznetsov and sergeant Alexei Chernikov who at the moment were together with Ibraghimov, for the fact that they failed to stop the actions of their colleague.

The next hearing on the case is appointed on March 26.