In Nizhny Tagil, Maxim Solovov, a key witness in the case of two policemen accused of the death of a detainee, died. This is reported by «Axiom».
What caused the death is not yet known. The Department of the Investigative Committee for the Sverdlovsk Region is conducting an audit.
Solovov was a witness in the case of security officials Maxim Onuchin and Pavel Gorshkov. They are accused of abuse of office (paragraph «c» of part 3 of article 286 of the Criminal Code) due to the death of a resident of Nizhny Tagil, Sergei Shamrin, after detention.
On January 29, Shamrin's body with signs of violent death was found in the police department No. As doctors concluded, a 43-year-old man died due to a trauma to the cervical spinal cord. He was detained and brought to the department by a squad of patrol service.
According to Shamrin's wife, security forces threw her husband upside down into the service car, injuring his neck. On that day, Maxim Solovov was also in the detainee compartment — he asked the police to help Shamrin, but they ignored him. When Shamrin was taken out of the car, he was no longer breathing.
In February, Onuchin and Gorshkov were detained, later the court sent them to a pre-trial detention center. Another witness in the case is their colleague, Sergeant Maxim Kovaikin.