ICRF’s chair orders to re-institute case against Maria Smelaya’s husband

The prosecutor of the Prikubansky District of Krasnodar has cancelled the decision to institute a criminal case against a husband of Maria Smelaya. The woman complained about beating by her husband and abduction of her child. Investigators will challenge the prosecutor’s decision. The chair of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) issued instructions to his subordinates to re-launch the investigation.

The “Caucasian Knot” has reported that the police released the husband of Maria Smelaya, a native of Chechnya. When the man was detained, he had no child with him. The man is suspected of arbitrariness with the use of violence, human rights defendants report. Maria Smelaya claims that earlier, the police have refused to accept her complaint about the abduction of the child by her husband, a native of Chechnya, but the ICRF became interested in the case. In June, the woman complained that employees of the ICRF did not want to investigate the case.

The ICRF’s chair issued instructions to his subordinates to re-institute a criminal case regarding the unlawful actions of the man against his former partner and her child in Krasnodar. In its Telegram channel, the ICRF reported about a story of the woman who said that her former partner beat her for three years and, under threat of reprisal, forbade her to appeal to the law enforcement bodies. In May of this year, fearing for her safety, the woman arrived with her one-and-a-half-year-old child to a shelter for women who fell victim to domestic violence, from where the man kidnapped them and then took the child with him.

Let us remind you that on June 4, it turned out that the husband of Maria Smelaya has another wife. This woman also filed a complaint with human rights defenders claiming that her partner was beating her and their children.