On March 8, Moscow’s Basmanny Court sanctioned the arrest of three suspects in the case of the recent murder of Boris Nemtsov — Khamzad Bakhaev, Tamerlan Eskerkhanov and Shagid Gubashev.
Gubashev was arrested until May 7, Eskerkhanov and Bakhaev until May 8. Bakhaev, 45, Eskerkhanov, 34 and Gubashev, 31, are suspected of murder committed by a group of persons in collusion for reasons of greed or for money, as well as connected with robbery, extortion or banditry (Article 105 of Russia’s Criminal Code) and illegal turnover of weapons (Article 222).
Russian opposition and state figure, deputy of a regional legislature, the Yaroslavl City Duma, Boris Nemtsov, was shot dead on downtown Moscow’s Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge overnight to February 28 from a handgun.
More about: