19:56, 31 August 2025

Relatives of woman who died in Rostov prison hospital demand punishment of those responsible

67-year-old Irina Sukach, accused of participating in a criminal organization in the Aksai markets case, died in a prison hospital. The woman did not receive the necessary treatment, her relatives said, demanding an investigation into the death of Irina Sukach.

Irina Sukach, a defendant in the criminal case about the Aksai markets, died of a serious illness on the night of August 28 in the MOTB-19 prison hospital. She was arrested four years ago, accused of illegal entrepreneurship and participation in a criminal organization. Irina's son Alexander and lawyers have contacted the head of the Investigative Committee Bastrykin and are demanding an investigation: they believe that Irina Sukach was not given proper assistance, the publication 161.ru reported today.

"On the fact of death and failure to provide emergency medical care on August 29, we submitted documents to the Investigative Committee. All materials are currently being processed by the Investigative Committee. the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Oktyabrsky District. An application was also filed in the name of the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, with the aim of placing the fact of death under his control," Alexander's words are quoted in the publication.

The family demands a thorough investigation and punishment of those responsible. In his appeal to the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander stated that his mother was simply left to die in the prison hospital.

“I believe that when my mother was taken to MOTB-19 due to a progressive deterioration in her health, the [hospital] staff should have determined the cause of her deteriorating condition and provided her with appropriate medical care. Contrary to their duties, such care was not provided to my mother. In fact, the mother was left alone to die, without providing her with immediate medical care when her health deteriorated, without determining the cause of such deterioration, without providing her with resuscitation measures"

Alexander Sukach and his lawyers are confident that the actions of the MOTB-19 employees contain elements of crimes under two articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: "Failure to provide assistance to a patient", "Causing death by negligence." In his appeal to Bastrykin, Alexander also asked for help to establish the true causes of his mother's death, as well as to ensure a forensic medical examination and bring the perpetrators to criminal responsibility.

Irina Sukach was 67 years old. According to relatives, about a month and a half ago, Irina Sukach complained that the pretrial detention center had stopped giving her the necessary medications. The woman was recently placed in the interregional tuberculosis hospital (MOTB) of the GUFSIN of the Russian Federation for the Rostov Region. Two days ago, the patient was assigned the status of "serious": she had a high temperature, and her throat was swollen. The day before her death, she was transferred to intensive care and connected to an oxygen machine. She died in intensive care, Bloknot Rostov reported today.

Irina Sukach was listed as a co-owner of companies owned by businessman Karim Babaev, including OOO "Aksayskiye ovoshchey" and OOO "Akva-park". She, like other participants in the "Aksay markets" case, was accused of illegal entrepreneurship and participation in a criminal community.

In October 2021, Irina Sukach was detained during an investigation while trying to travel on a bus from Rostov-on-Don to Moscow. Sukach herself claimed that she needed to get to the capital for treatment and was sure that she had correctly notified law enforcement officers about her trip. However, law enforcement agencies considered the attempt to leave as an intention to hide from the investigation and the woman's preventive measure was changed to detention.

Even before her arrest, Sukach was diagnosed with a whole bunch of diseases, including immunological disorders. She is a disabled person of the 2nd group, she needed to take expensive medications and undergo chemotherapy sessions, the publication says.

As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, 27 April 2021, in the Aksay district of the Rostov region, security forces conducted an inspection at four markets as part of a criminal case against the former head of the Aksay district, Vitaly Borzenko, and the work of the markets was suspended. Entrepreneurs from the closed markets repeatedly held protests. The businessmen were allocated new sites for trading, but they pointed out the lack of customers at the new location. The entrepreneurs collected several thousand signatures under a complaint to the Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov, they demanded that the territory of the markets not be allowed to be developed.

In July 2021, Vitaly Borzenko submitted a letter of resignation from the post of head of the Aksay district administration, and district deputies terminated his powers.

The detainees, as security officials believe, alienated municipal land and leased it out. In doing so, they facilitated illegal migration, legalized money from the markets, receiving an income of more than 500 million rubles. The court has been considering the case of illegal leasing of municipal land by officials of the Aksaysky District of the Rostov Region for more than two years; witnesses don't come to court.

Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/415016