21:38, 2 June 2024

KBR resident complains about criminal case fabrication

The expertise, on the basis of which the court found Salikh Osmanov, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), guilty of attempted sabotage, was conducted with gross violations, the complaint lodged against Osmanov's verdict asserts. He has accused law enforcers of fabricating the case against him.

According to his advocates, employees of the forensic centre of the KBR's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) made violations during conducting the expertise.

Osmanov was sentenced to nine years of freedom deprivation within the case of attempted sabotage. Advocates has sent Osmanov's phone for expertise, in which law enforcers allegedly found evidence of attempted sabotage. The expert, who has reviewed the expertise conclusions, has pointed out gross violations in the expertise methodology. He also questioned the expert's qualification, the "Memorial" Centre for Human Rights Defence (CHRD)* has reported in its website.

According to investigators, Salikh Osmanov was a member of a criminal grouping together with Asker Karmokov and Yusup Kudaev, also KBR residents. In the messenger, they used to discuss their radical Islamist views and negative attitude towards the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine. In their correspondence, they allegedly expressed their intention to commit an explosion in the Prokhladnensky District "in order to undermine the economic security and defence capacity of the Russian Federation."

*As reported on the website of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), the reason for including on March 1, 2024, the unregistered "Memorial" Centre for Human Rights Defence (CHRD) into the roster of foreign agents was the spread of "inaccurate information aimed at creating a negative image of the Russian Federation, as well as the Russian Armed Forces."

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on June 1, 2024 at 11:57 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Source: Caucasian Knot