On March 2, the appellate instance of the Supreme Court of Chechnya, having considered a complaint from the Russian Ministry of Finance, reduced compensation to a local resident who suffered from illegal criminal prosecution to 150 thousand rubles.
Salakh Vakhaev came under investigation back in 2006, when the Kurchaloyevsky Prosecutor's Office was investigating a case of illegal entry into a home, hooliganism and attempted rape. There were 10 people involved in the case. Soon, some of the charges against Vakhaev were dropped, but the case against him was finally dropped only after a year and a half.
After this, Salakh Vakhaev filed a lawsuit, demanding an official apology from the Kurchaloy prosecutor and 1 million rubles from the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation represented by the Federal Treasury Department of the Chechen Republic as compensation for moral damage caused.
“As a result of the illegal criminal prosecution and his accusation of committing especially serious crimes, he suffered moral damage, in addition to him, his entire family suffered, since for 1.5 years he was limited in rights, forced to endure moral suffering, in connection with this criminal prosecution there was his business reputation was greatly damaged, for a long time he had to explain to everyone that he was not involved in the commission of a crime,” the court quotes his statement of claim.
On September 28, 2022, the Leninsky District Court of Grozny decided to pay the victim 300 thousand rubles. As for the apology, the proceedings on this part of the claims were discontinued.
Representatives of the Ministry of Finance appealed this decision, and the Supreme Court of Chechnya, having studied their appeal and listened to the explanations of Vakhaev’s lawyer, made a new decision: to reduce the amount of compensation for moral damage to 150 thousand rubles. “The compensation awarded... is excessive,” the judge explained in his ruling. - The court of first instance did not sufficiently take into account the nature and degree of physical or moral suffering suffered by Vakhaev. He was a suspect in the case; a preventive measure in the form of a recognizance not to leave the place was applied to him for only 3 months.”