Suspect of killing vice-premier of KChR meets his advocate

For the first time since June 17, the lawyer Vyacheslav Merzakulov was admitted to the detention facility to meet Atam Achmiz, a resident of Adygea, suspected of executing the murder of the deputy prime minister of the Karachay-CherkessianRepublic (KChR) Ansar Tebuev.

Let us remind you that Ansar Tebuev, who supervised the power block in the government of the KChR, was killed on October 18, 2004. The investigation into his murder was resumed after on May 30, 2013, in Cherkessk, one of the suspects was detained, who, as investigators assert, confessed and named the organizers and perpetrators of the murder.

"Yesterday, on June 25, an investigator contacted me and asked to come to the Investigating Committee. I was allowed to communicate with my client in the presence of operative agents," Vyacheslav Merzakulov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

According to his story, at the meeting Atam Achmiz looked depressed.

"I was not provided with the interrogation protocol. By external impression I can say that he had some reddening near his ears; however, our meeting was not confidential; and I could not examine my client or ask him about torture. The only thing he told me that he was not tortured for the last two days, it," said the advocate.

Earlier, relatives of Atam Achmiz claimed that he had been tortured at the IVS (temporary detention facility) of the city Cherkessk.