Muzraev Mikhail

Muzraev Mikhail

Biography

2023: Sentence - 20 years of strict regime in the case of an attempt to set fire to the house of the governor of the Volgograd region

On March 22, 2023, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced the former head of the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Volgograd Region, Mikhail Muzraev, to 20 years in a maximum security colony on charges of setting fire to the house of the head of the Volgograd Region, Andrei Bocharov, qualified as a terrorist attack.

The second person involved in the case, Volgograd businessman Vladimir Zubkov, received 14 years in prison. Earlier, the prosecution requested 20 years for Muzraev and 15 years for Zubkov. The court also stripped Muzraev of the rank of lieutenant general of justice and state awards. He was found guilty under Articles 205 ("Terrorist act committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy"), 285 ("Abuse of office") and 222 ("Illegal acquisition, transfer, sale, storage, transportation or carrying of weapons, its main parts, ammunition") of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

The investigation concluded that on the night of November 16, 2016, a criminal group of five people entered the territory of the governor's house in Volgograd, one of them unsuccessfully tried to set fire to the wall of the house with the help of flammable liquid. The group was headed by Evgeny Remezov, the main tenant of the central market in Volgograd. He insists that Zubkov asked him to set fire to the house on behalf of Muzraev.

According to Kommersant, according to the investigation, the general for many years led the "shadow structure of power" in the region and organized an attempt on the governor, who pursued an independent policy, in order to take control of it.

In turn, the ex-general of the TFR did not admit his guilt and said that he had no contradictions with the governor. The defense side argued that the assumptions of the investigation are based on the testimony of convicted persons who were prosecuted by the head of the regional department of the TFR.^[1]

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