18 March 2022, 19:37
Four policemen charged with forcing a Makhachkala resident to self-incrimination
Charges have been brought against four policemen who, under threat of beatings, forced a woman from Makhachkala to confess to drug possession, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports today.
According to the investigators’ version, in November 2021, in Makhachkala, four inspectors of the patrol-and-post service (known as PPS) of the Makhachkala Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), threatened physical violence and criminal liability and forced a 27-year-old local woman to confess to illegal drug possession, the ICRF’s Department for Dagestan reported.
“When the resident of Makhachkala refused to confess to drug possession, one of the accused put a parcel with narcotic substance into a pocket of the woman’s trousers and documented those actions in the crime reporting book. Moreover, the defendants drew up a deliberately false administrative report on petty hooliganism against the victim,” the ICRF’s Department for Dagestan reported in its message posted on the website.
All four accused policemen were taken into custody and charged.
This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on March 18, 2022 at 01:45 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.
Author: The Caucasian Knot
