Today the High Qualification Board of Judges of Russia (HQJC) will consider the…

Today, the Higher Qualification Board of Judges of Russia (HQCC) will consider the proposal of the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, to bring to justice six judges suspected of committing various crimes.

So, they are asking to open a case against the former chairman of the Pestrechinsky court of Tatarstan, Irek Nabiev. The set of articles of the Criminal Code is impressive: fraud (159 Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), kidnapping (126 Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), drug trafficking (228.1 Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), extortion (163 Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), abuse of official powers (286 Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), forgery of documents (327 Criminal Code RF), money laundering (174.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), taking bribes (290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Based on this list, you might think that we are talking about the leader of the mafia. However, this story is not so simple.

The VChK-OGPU telegram channel received Nabiev’s objection to the proposal to give consent to initiate a criminal case. In it, a retired judge says that a certain V.A. Kaimanov worked for him as a driver for one year. When the judge found out that he had a previous conviction and, moreover, began to talk about his friendship with Nabiev and offer himself to various people as a fixer, he fired him. Much later, Kaymanov was suspected of stealing a gigantic amount from the accounts of Kisher LLC. It turned out that this LLC is controlled by one of the “authorities” of the Uralmashevskie organized crime group, V.A. Utrobin. These were funds received as a result of raider attacks, laundering criminal proceeds, etc. Unexpectedly, officers from the FSB of the Republic of Tatarstan arrived at Nabiev for an informal conversation, who explained that Utrobin was their man and the money needed to be returned. They believed that Nabiev could influence Kaymanov. The judge refused. After Kaimanov’s arrest, he did not mention Nabiev in his testimony. Still couldn’t get the money back. Then, according to his version, FSB officers again came to the judge and said that this was the last chance to return everything to Utrobin. It didn’t work, the judge assured that it had nothing to do with the theft and Caymanov.

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As a result, Kaymanov entered into a pre-trial agreement (thanks to which he received eight years) and began to testify that absolutely all the crimes of which he is accused, whether he himself or his friends in the criminal world are suspected, were committed on the orders of Judge Nabiev. Nabiev himself denies guilt and believes that he became a victim of “games” of the special services. He asks the VKKS to refuse to initiate the case.

“ВЧК ОГПУ”