ITAR-TASS : Russia - Moscow City Court’s jury brings in verdict of guilty in Politkovskaya murder case
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The Moscow City Court’s jury have brought in a verdict of guilty in the 2006 murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Itar-Tass correspondent reported from the court on Tuesday.
The panel of juror pleaded chief defendant in the case, Lom-Ali Gaitukayev, guilty of organizing the murder and creating a criminal group for that.
Présentation du procès il y a un mois.
Politkovskaya murder trial proceeds with third jury - Committee to Protect Journalists
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Among the five men currently being tried are three ethnic Chechen brothers, Dzhabrail, Ibragim, and Rustam Makhmudov, whom authorities accuse of executing the murder. Investigators allege that Rustam Makhmudov was the gunman, while Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov were his accomplices. Other suspects being tried in the case are Lom-Ali Gaitukayev, the Makhmudov brothers’ uncle, who is accused of receiving the order to kill the journalist from an unidentified mastermind and organizing the hit; and Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, a former police officer with the Moscow Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and a suspected accomplice in the murder.
Avec rappel du premier procès ayant condamné un premier accusé en évitant soigneusement toute lumière sur les circonstances…
A sixth suspect in the case—former police Lt. Col. Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, who was originally charged with organizing the 2006 killing—was sentenced on December 14, 2012, in a deal that Politkovskaya’s family and colleagues said prevented the solving of the crime by precluding the identification of its true masterminds. Pavlyuchenkov’s trial was a two-day, secret proceeding, in which the former police official, under an arrangement he made with investigators, was tried as an accomplice in the crime rather than a key culprit. According to the deal, Pavlyuchenkov was obligated to fully confess his role in the murder and name its mastermind, Novaya Gazeta said. The journalist’s family and colleagues said Pavlyuchenkov did not fulfill those conditions, but their appeals to invalidate the deal have been denied. Also under Pavlyuchenkov’s deal with investigators, journalists were allowed in court only for the opening and closing statements; leaving all substantive deliberations and testimony in the former colonel’s trial sealed from the public.