Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded the rank of Major General of Justice to Investigative Committee employee Vladimir Sharaev. The relevant decree was published on the following date: portal legal information.
“To assign the highest special ranks to employees of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Vladimir Olegovich Sharaev,” the document states.
Before that, information appeared in the media that Sharaev, the investigator of particularly important cases, has been leading the cases of the murder of journalists Anna Politkovskaya and Paul Klebnikov since 2015.
In November 2023, it became known that the organizer of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya was pardoned. The defendant in the case, Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, left the colony for a special operation at the end of 2022 and happened battalion commander of the reconnaissance battalion. According to the investigation, which the court accepted, he organized the surveillance of the journalist. The defendant’s sentence was supposed to end in 2034.
Children of Politkovskaya before statedThat they did not see Khadzhikurbanov’s pardon as atonement for his crime.