An ex-employee of the Dagestan FSB, deported from Poland to the Russian Federation, was sentenced to imprisonment

Former FSB officer Emran Navruzbekov was sentenced to a year and three months in a penal colony. He was found guilty of slandering his colleagues because of an interview about fabricating cases of “terrorism” in Dagestan.

In 2017, Navruzbekov fled the Russian Federation with his family and requested political asylum in Poland, but he was deported. In June 2023, he was expelled to Russia under the pretext that he posed a “threat to the security of Poland.”

However, the Polish authorities did not take into account that a former FSB officer spoke publicly about how criminal cases under terrorist charges are being fabricated in Dagestan. In particular, he spoke about controlled terrorist attacks, killings of people under the guise of “eliminating terrorists,” torture, and the planting of weapons and drugs. In addition, his superiors wanted to send him to Turkey to collect information and counter opposition activists from Dagestan and Chechnya who had emigrated there, but he did not want to do this and left through Belarus to Poland.

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