No CCTV cameras in ward where Roscosmos top manager Yevdokimov was found dead - Moscow ombudsman
MOSCOW. March 23 (Interfax) - A detention center No. 5 ward, where slain Roscosmos top manager Vladimir Yevdokimov has been held, was not equipped with CCTV cameras, Moscow human rights ombudsman Tatyana Potyayeva said.
"There were no video monitoring cameras in this ward at all, nothing could be switched off," Potyayeva told reporters on Thursday, answering the relevant question.
Only 25 out of 134 cells are equipped with the video monitoring system at detention center No. 5 and this is alarming, she said.
"This [provision of cells with video-recording cameras] is a primary task to protect the rights of people," the Moscow ombudsman said.
Yevdokimov has been transferred to another ward, where he was killed, because a domestic conflict has occurred in the previous cell, Potyayeva also said.
"A domestic conflict has broken out. A row over a bed caused the conflict. According to the data, which I have received, this conflict was the primary reason [for moving Yevdokimov to another prison cell]," she said.
Four cellmates of Yevdokimov confirmed the data about the conflict, Potyayeva said.
The relations between Yevdokimov and his cellmates in a new ward were "absolutely normal," she also said.
"Businessmen convicted for economic crimes were mainly being held in this ward. There were no outright criminals there," she said.
As reported, the body of Roscosmos state corporation executive director Yevdokimov was found with two stab penetrating wounds to his chest and one on the left side of his neck in a jail cell toilet in the early hours of March 18.