Former counterintelligence operative FSB Directorate for Dagestan Emran Navruzbekov told Dossier that he managed to escape. On the afternoon of Sunday, June 18, he told us that the day before he had been brought to Moscow, after which he was able to escape.
“I ran away yesterday. I swear, my hands are all beat up. Help, I don’t know what to do anymore. I swear, I don’t want to set anyone up, but I have nothing left to eat,” – Navruzbekov said in a voice message.
According to him, his term of administrative arrest was expiring on Saturday. Half an hour before expected release Five security officials came to see him in the temporary detention center in Kaliningrad and took him to take him to Moscow. Navruzbekov did not specify who exactly accompanied him. At Sheremetyevo the convoy handed him over to the “Dagestanians.” Probably, Navruzbekov had in mind his former colleagues from the FSB Directorate in Dagestan. They were supposed to buy tickets and take Navruzbekov to his home region, but he managed to escape. He did not say how exactly he did it, only answering that he “ran away quickly in a taxi, and even the taxi driver didn’t take the money“from him.
A former FSB officer said that reached the “village”where he bought groceries with the remaining 2 thousand rubles. He got in touch with the “Dossier” while “in a field 70 kilometers from Sheremetyevo.” Navruzbekov asked for help several times, adding that all he can do is “just hang himself.” He did not say why his money was not confiscated during his stay in the detention center or where he got the phone.
The “Dossier” tried to find out where Navruzbekov was, whether he really escaped and whether he was under the control of FSB operatives, but he stopped responding to messages, and soon his phone was switched off. His wife Irada’s phone is also switched off. Last week she told The Dossier that plans to return from Poland to Russia. The Dossier found the owner of the number from which Navruzbekov wrote. It turned out to be agricultural farm worker 70 kilometers from Sheremetyevo airport. He reported that “Emran was taken away” and asked me not to write anymore.
Emran Navruzbekov left Russia in 2017 and sought asylum in Poland. He received a refusal, appealed it and applied again in October 2022. Recently, Navruzbekov was in a refugee camp in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. In winter, in an interview with GULAG.net, Navruzbekov said that “terrorist cases” are being fabricated in Dagestan so that local security forces receive bonuses and promotions. Navruzbekov spoke about murders people under the guise of “eliminating terrorists”, torture and planting of weapons and drugs. He also claimed that the leadership of the FSB planned to send him to Turkey to monitor the emigrated oppositionists from the North Caucasus.
“Of course I’m afraid. I know how they work. History says that in any case they will kill me”he told CNN in January.
On May 17, Navruzbekov was detained during a document check; he was placed under arrest due to a possible violation of the rules of conduct in a refugee camp. Polish police considered that he was insubordinate and aggressive during his arrest. He himself denied it. According to him, he was detained immediately after he gave Vladimir Osechkin “500 files of classified information” for the Hague Tribunal. After his arrest, Navruzbekov was placed in a center for foreigners in Przemysl, where he had to await deportation. His lawyers believed that they had you have until August to appeal the decisionand filed an urgent request for a hearing to prevent deportation at the ECHR.
At the same time, Navruzbekov wrote to the Dossier correspondent and asked for a meeting. On June 5, he notified the administration of the institution in Przemysl that he would like to receive a visitor. On the night of June 6 Navruzbekov was taken from the center for foreigners and deported to Russia without waiting for his complaint to be considered.
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A former FSB officer deported to Russia reported an escape attempt
After that he stopped communicating
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