Woman from Krasnodar Territory complains about beating by judge

Valeria Kandaurova, who lives in the city of Ust-Labinsk in the Krasnodar Territory, has filed a complaint with the police claiming that she was beaten up by a judge in response of her demand to remove his car. A video of the beating was posted by Telegram channels.

The victim and a witness said that on October 11, Valeria Kandaurova and her girlfriend left home and saw that her car was blocked by another one. Neighbours told her that this car belonged to a federal judge. Kandaurova called him on the intercom, and the judge told her that he would not remove the car. After Kandaurova honked her horn from her car, the judge went outside and hit her several times.

Kandaurova said that the judge called the police. The women were taken to the police station; according to her story, law enforcers tried to persuade her to delete the video and threatened that otherwise they would not release the women from the police.

The "Caucasian Knot" has also reported that on July 23, it became known that the court had sentenced Pavel Grachov, a former judge of the Temryuk District Court of the Krasnodar Territory, to 8.5 years at a high security penal colony, finding him guilty of bribe-taking.