The cassation court declared illegal the refusal to initiate a criminal case after the death of the nationalist Maksim Martsinkevich, known as Tesak, in the Chelyabinsk pre-trial detention center. On Thursday, January 13, reports TASS with reference to his lawyer Alexei Mikhalchik.
“After the death of Martsinkevich, the pre-investigation check ended with a refusal to initiate a case, we filed a complaint first with the first instance, then with the appeal. All of them recognized the refusal as legitimate. Then a cassation was filed, and the Court of Cassation overturned the decision to refuse and returned the materials to the Chelyabinsk Regional Court for a new consideration, ”the lawyer said.
Mikhalchik also added that the investigation into the three murders, initiated on the basis of the testimony that Martsinkevich gave before his death, is currently underway. On December 2, 2021, it was reported that Tesak himself was posthumously charged in this case.
In October, it became known that, shortly before committing suicide in the Chelyabinsk pre-trial detention center, Martsinkevich had issued nine confessions at once, testifying against his comrades-in-arms. Thanks to the testimony, experts have solved several murders that were committed in 2003.
On September 16, 2020, Tesak was found dead in a solitary confinement cell, where he was temporarily for further transfer to Moscow. According to the official version, the nationalist committed suicide, but a suicide note found in his mouth says that he feared for his life and did not intend to commit suicide. In the last note found in the mouth of the nationalist, he admitted that he had given false testimony during interrogation. According to Tesak, he was not involved in the murder of a citizen of Tajikistan and a native of Dagestan and regrets that he incriminated himself and two of his acquaintances.
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