A lawyer for the victims in the Boris Nemtsov murder case has denied the information that experts have not confirmed the involvement of the people implicated in the case.
“I think this information is, to put it softly, untrue. It’s not true that nothing was found there,” lawyer Vadim Prokhorov told Interfax on July 30.
He said investigators intend to perform some more evaluations. “From my viewpoint, it’s not enough and I would like more, but it’s a different issue,” Prokhorov said.
The lawyer said the lawyers for the accused are interpreting the information contained in the press in their favor.
“It’s their job. I am not surprised,” Prokhorov said.
Kommersant reported earlier on July that the biological tests performed on the suspects in the Nemtsov murder case did not confirm traces of their presence in the car used by the assassins.
“Additionally, another forensic evaluation is in favor of the accused: a study for biological traces performed on the physical evidence taken from an improvised firing range in a forest, where, as the investigators believed, the suspects, who lived nearby, practiced using weapons before the attack,” Kommersant reported.
A lawyer for Zaur Dadayev, the suspected perpetrator of the crime, confirmed to Interfax on Thursday that his clients’ traces were not found in the ZAZ Chance, which was used in the attack. “As I understand, no traces were found in the car. They didn’t find any fingerprints on the cartridges found in the Moscow region, either,” lawyer Shamsudin Tsakayev said.
He believes this confirmed the position of the defense lawyers for the suspects, which is that they are uninvolved in the opposition politician’s murder.
Nemtsov was shot dead on Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow on Feb. 27, 2015. A criminal case was opened on the basis of the articles of the Russian Criminal Code dealing with murder and illegal weapons turnover. Nemtsov’s children have been named victims in the case.
Five people are under investigation in connection with this case under the Basmanny District Court’s orders: the two suspected perpetrators Zaur Dadayev and Anzor Gubashev; and their suspected abettors Khamzat Bakhayev, Shadid Gubashev and Temerlan Eskerkhanov. They all deny their guilt, and Dadayev says he had given confessionary evidence under pressure.
