Moscow City Court will hold a debate on the Kvachkov case
The Moscow City Court will hold a debate on the case of the ex-colonel of the GRU, Vladimir Kvachkov. Kvachkov is accused of preparing a military coup in Russia and promoting terrorist activities. The meeting was scheduled to take place on January 30, but was postponed due to the absence of a lawyer of another person involved in the case - Alexander Kiselev.The Moscow City Court appointed Kiselev a new lawyer, who was given time before February 4 to get acquainted with the case materials. On January 28 at the trial, Vladimir Kvachkov stated that his movement “People’s Militia” did not prepare for an insurrection in Russia. The “militia” organized only partisan exercises, so that in the event of war the enemy could be repulsed, the former colonel of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Defense Ministry insisted. During the hearings, the investigators insisted on holding a psychiatric examination for Kvachkov, Interfax reports.
The former GRU colonel found the demands of the investigation offensive and unsuccessfully tried to cancel the examination. But a few months later, the doctors came to the conclusion that Vladimir Kvachkov is mentally healthy and fully sane.
Vladimir Kvachkov was detained by Russian FSB operatives 23 December 2010 in his apartment. He was immediately taken to the Moscow Lefortovo Court, which arrested the ex-colonel of the GRU on charges of attempting an armed coup and promoting terrorist activities. The reason for the arrest was the conversations that Kvachkov conducted in the kitchen of his apartment with his colleagues.
The Moscow City Court rejected on October 17 the 2012 of the defense petition for the termination of the criminal case against Kvachkov.
At the February 4 meeting of the 2013, the prosecutor should state the punishment that the state prosecution considers legitimate and fair for Vladimir Kvachkov.
The Volgograd district court 4 of December 2012 of the year did not find signs of extremism in the appeal to the All-Russian officer meeting of the former GRU colonel Vladimir Kvachkov, who is charged with attempting to prepare a military coup. Earlier, the district prosecutor of Volgograd filed a petition for recognition of the text posted on November 9, 7 in the Volgograd newspaper Kolokol as an extremist text.
The prosecution insists that Kvachkov and his supporters intended to seize warehouses with weapons and military units in several central Russian cities, including Kovrov. In the warehouses that, according to the investigators, were supposed to be captured, among other things, Kalashnikov assault rifles, RPK machine guns, CGM grenade launchers and other weapons were stored.
Earlier, Vladimir Kvachkov was twice acquitted by the Mosoblsud jury in the case of the attempted assassination of the former head of RAO UES of Russia, Anatoly Chubais. 22 December 2010 of the Year The Supreme Court of Russia declared the acquittal of Kvachkov legal.
The former colonel has ensured that the prosecutor's office apologized to him for unlawful criminal prosecution, and also sought non-pecuniary damage in court in the amount of 450 thousand rubles.
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