After the ex-FSB officer for Dagestan was deported from Poland to Russia, contact with him disappeared

The day before, the Polish authorities extradited, at the request of the Russian Federation, ex-employee of the Dagestan FSB Emran Navruzbekov. After that, the connection with him disappeared. This was reported by his wife, who received political asylum with her children in Poland.

Emran Navruzbekov was expelled to Russia on the grounds that he posed a "threat to Poland's security." However, the country's authorities did not take into account that he publicly talked about how criminal cases under terrorist articles are fabricated in Dagestan, and ignored the emergency complaint filed with the ECHR.

The Navruzbekovs left for Poland in 2017, but then the application of the ex-FSB officer for political asylum was rejected.

Emran claimed that people connected with the special services are organizing “controlled terrorist attacks” and staged operations to “eliminate terrorists” in the North Caucasus, planting drugs and weapons on unwanted people. In addition, according to Navruzbekov, the authorities wanted to send him to Turkey to collect information and counter opposition activists who had emigrated there from Dagestan and Chechnya, but he did not want to do this and left through Belarus to Poland.

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