"Kommersant": drugs found in the apartment of figurants in Nemtsov's case

The criminologists found that the substances, found this spring during a search of the apartment rented by the figurants in Boris Nemtsov's murder case, are heroin and hashish.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the oppositional politician Boris Nemtsov was killed on February 27 in Moscow. According to official data, under his murder case, five natives of Chechnya and Ingushetia were detained: Zaur Dadaev, Anzor Gubashev, Khamzat Bakhaev, Tamerlan Eskerkhanov and Shagid Gubashev. All the five are under arrest and saw their charges. Four of them have refused to plead guilty. The only defendant, who has not rejected his confession, is Shagid Gubashev. Another figurant in the case is Ruslan Geremeev, a former officer of the Chechen battalion "Sever" (North), but investigators have failed to detain him yet. In April, it was reported that he has the status of a suspect, not a defendant.

The chemical examination was appointed in spring, after the search conducted by the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in the Moscow apartment, rented by Ruslan Geremeev for prospective killers of Nemtsov, found a package of white powder and a lump of some brown matter. On November 12, it became known that chemical experts recognized the powder as heroin and the brown lump as compressed hashish, the "Kommersant" reports.

According to Shamsudin Tsakaev, the advocate of Zaur Dadaev, the presence of narcotic drugs in the apartment does not prove that they belonged to the defendants.

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