09:50, 21 July 2015

Doctors find Zaur Dadaev sane

Police officer escorts Zaur Dadaev along the Basmanny Court hallway, Moscow, March 8, 2015. Photo by Yulia Buslavskaya for the ‘Caucasian Knot’.

During his psychiatric examination, Zaur Dadaev, the main figurant in the Boris Nemtsov's murder case, told doctors that he had been contused during the militants' attack on Grozny. This was two months before the assassination of Nemtsov.

Boris Nemtsov was 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's advocate said that the psychiatric examination was conducted on July 20.

Most of doctors' questions, as to whether Dadaev had been exposed to severe stresses, whether he had visions and whether compulsive thoughts had come to his mind, were replied in the negative by the defendant. However, he said that in December 2014 he participated in the liberation of the buildings in Grozny, captured by militants, and was contused.

Let us remind you that the militant attack on Grozny was committed at night on December 4, 2014. Thus, according to Zaur Dadaev's testimonies, he received his contusion in less than two months before the murder of Boris Nemtsov.

Investigators are considering the version that Nemtsov's killers began preparing the assassination in October-November 2014. Therefore, according to investigators, the Dadaev's participation in the special operation in Grozny happened already during the preparation of Nemtsov's murder.

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