16:10, 29 January 2021

Chechnya: lawyer's wife complains about financial difficulties after his detention

The court session on the question of the continuation of the arrest of the lawyer Sergey Marakov. His advocates at Grozny's Lenin district court. Screenshot of the post on Andrei Sabinin's Facebook https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=3971759139515270&set=a.511013482256537

A court in Chechnya has found the arrest of the lawyer, Sergey Marakov, accused of hooliganism, to be legitimate. Marakov repeatedly helped his clients and colleagues for free, but after his arrest his family has faced financial difficulties, since there is practically no support, said the lawyer's wife.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that Sergey Marakov was arrested in Grozny and accused of illegal drug dealing.

Marakov has a long experience of working as an advocate – almost 40 years, his colleague, Anatoly Shevchuk, has noted. He denied Marakov's guilt in the drug case. "I will never believe that Sergey used drugs. Obviously, they had been planted on him; and the case was falsified," Mr Shevchuk has stated.

According to Olga, Sergey's wife, over the years of his work in Chechnya, Marakov had no serious conflicts; no threats were made against him. When trouble happened to him, there was no one next to him to help, she has noted.

"His advocate said that Sergey was not feeling well; he was morally depressed,” Olga said. According to her story, the family lives on her and her mother-in-law's pensions: Sergey had no savings.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on January 29, 2021 at 11:00 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Author: Amina Zakaeva

Source: CK correspondent