Zaur Dadaev

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IRKUTSK, August 1. /TASS/. Public Prosecutor’s check has not confirmed recent media information on what Zaur Dadaev, who was convicted for the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, fast in the colony. About TASS reported the senior assistant Prosecutor of the Irkutsk region Alexander Semenov.

As earlier reported mass media with reference to the lawyer condemned Rose Magomedov, Dadayev, who is serving a sentence in the Irkutsk prison, on hunger strike for 12 days after he was placed in solitary confinement.

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“The Irkutsk Prosecutor’s office on law observance in penal institutions checked the message. Dadaev did not take part in any strike, moreover, any complaints or statements it is not treated. The Prosecutor checked out this information personally. Why the attorney decided to use this kind of information is not clear,” – said Semyonov .

The Moscow district military court on 13 July last year on the basis of accusatory verdict of the jury sentenced Zaur Dadaev, brothers Anzor and Shadid Gubarevich, Temirlan eskerhanova and Khamzat Bagaeva to imprisonment for terms from 11 to 20 years in a strict regime colony. Received the maximum term of the perpetrator – a former Deputy commander of the battalion “North” Dadaev. Eskerkhanov and brothers Anzor and Shadid Gubareva sentenced to 14, 19 and 16 years in prison, Bahai – to 11 years.

Nemtsov was killed in Moscow late at night on 27 February 2015. On March 6 of that year, the investigating authorities detained five suspects, another alleged member of the killing of Beslan Shavanov while trying to arrest resisted and made up. According to investigators, the alleged customer and the organizer of the crime is a former officer of the battalion “North” Ruslan muhudinov. The charge brought against him in absentia in November 2015, he is on the international wanted list.