The court placed under house arrest an officer of the Vladikavkaz police department No. 3, suspected of kidnapping a man and planting drugs on him. This was reported by the regional department of the Investigative Committee.
According to the department, on January 4, five security officials came to the hostel «to check a citizen of the near abroad» for involvement in drug trafficking. Not finding anything illegal on the man, the police took him to one of the city apartments and kept him there until January 7. At that time, bundles of drugs weighing 5.8 grams were planted in his pocket. In addition, the security forces made two bookmarks with drugs in order to accuse the kidnapped of this.
In parallel, the police fabricated a criminal case against the man on drug trafficking (part 3 of article 30, paragraph «d» of part 4 of article 228.1 of the Criminal Code). According to the Investigative Committee, after that the foreigner was arrested.
The criminal case on abuse of power (points «d» and «e» of part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code) against five police officers and the detention of one of them became known on April 14. The other four have been put on the wanted list.