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Chairman of the Russia’s Investigative Committee has sent a team of officials from the Central Office to Bashkortostan to check completeness and impartiality of an investigation conducted in Sterlitamak in the death of Vika Paramonova born in 2013.

During one of the shows on the TV Channel One the girl’s father said that the girl had died because her mother beat her, but based on the results of an examination investigators believe that the girl had died of a congenital disease.

The girl had been taken to clinical hospital No 1 in the town of Sterlitamak, Bashkortostan in November 2014 with brain injure and brain edema. The girl was in coma for a long time and died in April. Later an expert concluded that the girl had had a congenital disease that caused the death.

The commission of the Central Office will check legality and impartiality of decisions made by investigators of the regional investigations directorate. At the same time, they will check how two forensic medical examinations had controversial results about the cause of death. They will also check actions or omission of guardianship authorities that failed to strip the mother of custody.

The Investigative Committee Chairman has suspended the head of Sterlitamak investigations office for the period of the check and ordered a comprehensive inspection of the operation of the whole of Bashkortostan Investigations Directorate.