Court started considering the criminal case against former police officers of Dalny police station. At 10 AM Volga district court started the first process in Kazan. 8 former police officers of Dalny police station are being prosecuted by investigating bodies of the Russia’s Investigative Committee in the Republic of Tatarstan.
They are a former deputy chief of the Criminal Investigation Department 25-year-old Almaz Vasilov, chief of the Criminal Investigation Department 31-year-old Ainur Rakhmatullin, head of the criminal police, deputy chief of police department 26-year-old Fail Sabirzyanov, detectives 25-year-old Ramil Akhmetzyanov, 24-year-old Ilnar Ibatullin, 29-year-old Amir Sharafullin, 28-year-old Alexander Fadeyev, and 23-year-old Denis Vasiliev.
According to investigators, the police officers in Dalny police station had a ready criminal scheme of getting necessary testimonies. If they were investigating a theft, they summoned a man to the station and just appointed him a guilty one. They offered him to confess to the crime and if the man refused falsified administrative report on him, detained and then arrested the “criminal”. After that they started the most terrifying part of their activity. The officers tried to get confession at any price, including physical violence. Some of the accused did not wait for the tortures and confessed at once, four of the detained, including the killed Sergey Nazarov, refused self-incrimination. And such intractable ones were tortured with the bottle. Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department Ainur Rakhmatullin, deputy chief of police department Fail Sabirzyanov and his deputy Almaz Vasilov treated the victims in the most cruel and immoral way. By the way the latter is charged with the most charges. Impunity made the officers so brazen that they used tortures to get necessary evidence not only from the accused, but witnesses and even victims. Investigators during the probe have studied all activity of the officers during three years and found 14 crimes.
Though there is conclusive evidence nobody of the accused would confess. However, the investigators don’t need that anyway. To prove somebody guilty requires only competent work of investigators and criminologists, who have run more than 85 expert examinations during this investigation, including forensic medical ones, which confirmed bodily harm the victims had. There were also handwriting expert examinations which helped to find people, who had falsified the administrative reports. The indictment is based on the aggregate of the evidence gathered by the investigators, which do not depend on whether the accused confessed to crimes or not.
Head of Media Relations V.I. Markin
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