Ukrainian and Russian special services deny any involvement into the disappearance of Russian opposition activist Leonid Razvozzhayev in Kyiv in October 2012, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine said.
“The checks were held into this issue, relevant applications were registered. There has been found no evidence of the involvement of employees of special services and law enforcement agencies into this,” Deputy Prosecutor General Anatoliy Prishko told reporters on Thursday, when asked whether the security forces were involved in the disappearance of this opposition figure.
He recalled that the Ukrainian Interior Ministry refused to launch criminal inquiry into the disappearance of Razvozzhayev.
As reported, Razvozzhayev was indicted under a criminal case based on the documentary Anatomy of Protest-2 shown on NTV television, which suggested that Razvozzhayev and some other opposition activists had been planning to incite mass disturbances in Russia.
On November 21, 2012, Razvozzhayev was also charged with robbery, which supposedly had taken place in Angarsk 15 years ago, although an investigation into it was not completed at the time.
Razvozzhayev’s detention was reported on October 22. It occurred under unclear circumstances. The Investigative Committee claimed that he had voluntarily turned himself in and confessed to what he had been charged with, while Razvozzhayev said he was abducted by unknown individuals in Kyiv and taken to the Bryansk region, where he was tortured to get him to confess to crime.
Solomiansky district department of police in Kyiv is conducting a pre-trial investigation based on a statement received from Razvozzhayev’s defense lawyer regarding his alleged abduction.
