Dadayev refutes connection with murder of Nemtsov
He pled guilty, investigators used to say.
Zaur Dadayev suspected of the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, has pled not guilty. He has announced it to human rights defenders. Investigators used to say that he had pled guilty. Members of the Civil Observation Commission have met Dadayev in Lefortovo.
He was made to plead guilty in exchange for the release of his friend Ruslan Yusupov, ex-officer of the internal troops Zaur Dadayev said. He had hoped to tell ‘all the truth’ in court but the judge would not let him speak.
Dadayev has complained about brutal treatment and has shown traces left by handcuffs and chains on his body, BBC reports. “They kept shouting: ‘Did you kill Nemtsov?’ I said that it wasn’t me,” the suspect told human rights defenders.
Members of the Civil Observation Commission have demanded to conduct a check-up in the detention centre, a medical check-up and a forensic medical examination for Dadayev.
Zaur Dadayev (former deputy commander of the battalion North), Anzor and Shagid Gubashev, Tamerlan Eskerkhanov and Khamzat Bakhayev were detained on suspicion o the murder of Boris Nemtsov, 55. Another North member, Beslan Shavanov, blew himself up with a grenade at the moment of the arrest. Information about two more detained people appeared not long before.
