Two residents of Nalčik collected compensation from three former policemen for detention in the station

Nalchik City Court ordered the former employees of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs - Azamat Akkaev, Beisultan Kertov and Timur Ketov - to pay 450 thousand rubles to the victims in compensation of moral damage. In favor of Valery Levdik and Alexander Knyazev, 300 thousand. and 150 thousand. rubles respectively were charged. 

In October 2016, three operatives illegally detained Levdik and Knyazev in the offices of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for more than three hours. The police had violated the right to defence by failing to mention the possibility of refusing to provide an explanation or by notifying relatives of the detention. 

«The said joint inaction of a group of persons in relation to the victims was made with the same intent and is aimed at the use of violence for the purpose of obtaining information», - noted in the verdict of Nalchik City Court. 
The officers were released from probation because of the statute of limitations on criminal proceedings.

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