Investigators' actions in Nemtsov murder case are legal - Basmanny Court
MOSCOW. Oct 14 (Interfax) - The Moscow Basmanny Court has found investigators' actions in the investigation into the killing of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, specifically, the refusal to question Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, and other high-ranking officials of the region, to be legal, an Interfax correspondent has reported, citing a decision made by Justice Yelena Lenskaya on the complaint filed by Vadim Prokhorov, a lawyer for the politician's daughter Zhanna Nemtsova, which was read on Wednesday.
In August, Prokhorov told Interfax that Zhanna Nemtsova has contested in court the lack of action by investigators as regards the search for the people who masterminded her father's killing.
"I filed a complaint with the Moscow Basmanny Court, in which we asked the court to find the lack of action by the Investigative Committee officials, who distanced themselves from determining the people who masterminded the killing, to be illegal. We expected the investigators to take actions to find the organizers and charge them in absentia in May and in the summer months, but that didn't happen," Prokhorov said.
He said the complaint raises the question of the legality of the investigator's order declining to question Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, State Duma deputy Adam Delimkhanov, Alibek Delimkhanov, commander of the battalion Sever, and Federation Council member Suleiman Geremeyev. The investigators only agreed to question Ruslan Geremeyev, deputy commander of the battalion Sever, but have not yet done so.
The lawyer also contested the failure to provide some documents to the victims.
Nemtsov was assassinated on Moscow's Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge on February 27, 2015. Five people implicated in the case (suspected perpetrators Zaur Dadayev, Anzor Gubashev and their suspected accomplices Bakhayev, Shadid Gubashev and Timerlan Eskerkhanov) remain in custody under a Basmanny court decision.