Larisa Kozova19:46, 08/13/24

Chechen Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, previously convicted of complicity in the murder of Russian oppositionist Boris Nemtsov, was not just pardoned for being sent to “SVO”. He was provided with quite comfortable conditions of service, which are in no way related to participation in hostilities, Russian opposition media write.

Thus, according to the Meduza publication, Eskerkhanov serves “in comfortable and safe conditions.”

“The release of Eskerkhanov, who received a sentence of 14 years of imprisonment, was reported by the state news agencies TASS and RIA Novosti. According to their data, he was pardoned in March, and he is fighting in Ukraine as a “stormtrooper,” the message reads.

However, “Novaya gazeta Evropa” found out that Eskerkhanov does not take part in hostilities, but guards the ruins of the metallurgical plants “Azovstal” and “Ilyich Plant” in occupied Mariupol. At the same time, his relatives come to Eskerkhanov “at the front”. The “fighters” of his unit, and therefore he himself, have the right to go on vacation every six months. Nemtsov’s killer also receives all “military payments” properly.

“Actually, Eskerkhanov himself is currently on such a vacation. He came to his native village in early August, and his fellow villagers met him as a real hero. The news spread, and it was in this way that it became known that Eskerkhanov is at large “, the publication says.Read also:

According to the publication’s sources, Zaur Dadayev, who is considered the main perpetrator of Nemtsov’s murder, can be released from prison in the same way. Today, he is the only one of those convicted of murdering Nemtsov who remains in the zone controlled by the Russian state. Two more convicts – brothers Anzor and Shadid Gubashev – were transferred to Chechnya and are “formally serving their time” in the Chechen colony Chornokozovo.

“On February 16 of this year, Dzhabrail Makhmudov, the murderer of Anna Politkovska, was released from this colony on parole. Although in fact Makhmudov was released even earlier, since in 2022 the Naur District Court, to which Chornokozov belongs, replaced his sentence of imprisonment with forced labor “, the journalists learned.

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