12:37, 16 April 2015

Zaur Dadaev: investigators demand to testify against Ruslan Geremeev

Zaur Dadaev. Photo by the ‘Caucasian Knot’ correspondent.

Shamsudin Tsakaev, an advocate of Zaur Dadaev, a defendant in the case of Boris Nemtsov's murder, requests investigators to re-interrogate his client. According to the advocate, Zaur Dadaev told him that the investigators forced him to testify against his colleague Ruslan Geremeev, the "RBC" reports. Initially, Zaur Dadaev has promised to show how Boris Nemtsov was murdered; however, the investigative experiment has failed, the "Rosbalt" reports.

Boris Nemtsov was shot and killed in Moscow on February 27. Five persons, including Zaur Dadaev, Anzor and Shagid Gubashev, Khamzat Bakhaev and Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, were detained on suspicion of involvement in the murder and put under arrest.

Zaur Dadaev claims that after his detention in Ingushetia on March 5, he gave a confession. After that, he was brought by plane to Moscow, where the investigators forced him to testify against Ruslan Geremeev. According to him, the text given to him by the investigators in Moscow mentioned a man with the name "Rusik": a person, who allegedly provided a pistol and a car to commit the crime, the "RBC" reports today.

"There is no such person with the name Rusik. He is a mythical character invented by those who tortured me. I would never speak of Geremeev as 'Rusik', since for me, he is senior in rank and age," Zaur Dadaev told Shamsudin Tsakaev as quoted by the "RBC".

The advocate has also reported that Zaur Dadaev had agreed to sign the protocol of interrogation in exchange for the release of Ruslan Yusupov, his friend and colleague, who was detained together with him in Ingushetia.

According to Shamsudin Tsakaev, when he visited his client at the "Lefortovo" SIZO (pre-trial prison), Zaur Dadaev told him about torture he was subjected to after his detention.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.