Investigators of the Investigative Committee's Head Office continue the investigation against Chief of district police Alexander Volchak, his deputy Vyacheslav Nikitin, head of the division Viktor Miller and district police officers Dmitry Oblivin and Vladimir Filimonov, opened in a crime under part 3 of article 293 of the RF Penal Code (negligence, entailing death of two or more people).
Charges have been pressed against officer Oblivin and a court ruled to place him under house arrest following a request of investigators. The restraint is due to his health problems. District officer Vladimir Filimonov and his chief Viktor Miller were detained today in accordance the article 91 of the RF Criminal Procedure Code. A court satisfied a request filed by the investigators and ruled to place Filimonov in custody pending trial.
It has been revealed that Filimonov made 4 procedural checks into complaints filed by Belov’s wife about multiple facts of beating and threats made by her husband. Following each of the checks the officer refused to open an investigation which was agreed by Victor Miller. Criminal omission of the police officers made it possible for Belov to commit a mass murder.
In addition, the investigators today launched a criminal investigation against deputy chief of the district police station Igor Shorin. He is suspected of a crime under part 3 of article 293 of the RF Penal Code (negligence). The two cases will be joined into one soon.
Head of Media Relations V.I. Markin
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