2024-07-16 08:15:58
Two close associates of former Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Timur Ivanov died on the same day, Day.Az reports with reference to Lenta.ru.
It is noted that 52-year-old businessman Igor Kotelnikov and 61-year-old head of the Defense Ministry’s state expertise department, Colonel General Magomed Khandayev, passed away on the same day, July 8.
During the investigation of Ivanov’s case, investigators questioned Khandayev, who was directly subordinate to the deputy minister, but was not arrested or placed in pretrial detention. The cause of his death is not stated, the funeral took place in his native village in Dagestan in the presence of relatives and colleagues.
In contrast, businessman Igor Kotelnikov died in the capital’s SIZO-4 “Medved”. He was accused of giving bribes to senior officials of the Ministry of Defense. Heart problems were named as the cause of death. According to Eva Merkacheva, a member of the Human Rights Council (HRC), Kotelnikov’s death was related to the conditions of detention in the punishment cell in the heat.
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