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All suspects in the Boris Nemtsov murder case have completed mental evaluations and have been found sane, a lawyer for the victims says.

“According to my information, the results of the evaluations are available, all suspects have been found sane,” Vadim Prokhorov, a lawyer for the victims, told Interfax on July 30.

He emphasized that it was a standard out-patient evaluation.

“It was an absolutely standard forensic ‘sane-not sane’ mental evaluation, which is envisaged in any murder case,” Prokhorov said.

He said the suspects have not undergone any psychological-psychiatric evaluations that were earlier reported by some media, which could determine their individual personality traits, specifically, an inclination to violence or religious extremism.

“No psychological-psychiatric evaluations were ordered, it’s definite,” Prokhorov said.

“Unfortunately, some publications publish unchecked information, specifically, reports that a psychological-psychiatric evaluation was ordered,” he said.

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.