Case of KBR resident killed in special operation stopped

The Supreme Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has stopped the criminal case initiated against the local resident, who was killed by power agents in 2011 and charged with assaulting policemen. The court refused to rehabilitate the men, as his relatives had requested.

The completion of the inquiry into the case against Zalimgeri Zhemukhov, a resident of the city of Nartkala, was reported by the Prosecutor's Office of the KBR yesterday, on December 7, says the information-analytical portal "Caucasus Today".

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported, referring to power agents, that on August 2, 2011, in the outskirt of Nartkala, in the Urvan District, agents of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and of the FSB tried to stop a VAZ-21099 car, driven by a 49-year-old local resident Zalimgeri Zhemukhov, but the driver opened fire on law enforcers from a Makarov pistol. He was shot dead by return fire. None of the power agents was hurt in the shootout.

In the course of the preliminary investigation, Zhemukhov's close relatives objected to the termination of the criminal case opened in connection with his death and insisted on continuation of the case with the aim to rehabilitate him.

Having considered the case, the court has concluded that Zhemukhov's guilt of the commission of the imputed crimes had been completely proved; and there were no grounds for his rehabilitation. The criminal case was stopped due to his death, says the statement posted on the website of the Prosecutor's Office of the KBR.

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