The court docket overturned the choice to detain the rector of “Shaninka”, however he'll stay in a pre-trial detention heart – Muricas News

The Second Court docket of Cassation of Moscow overturned the choice of the Moscow Metropolis Court docket on the detention of the rector of the Greater Faculty of Social and Financial Sciences, Sergei Zuev, who's suspected of fraud on an particularly massive scale. The case has been remanded for retrial.

A grievance towards the choice of Mosgorud was despatched not solely by the attorneys of the scientist, but in addition by the Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova. Whereas the court docket will rethink the request of the prosecutor’s workplace to interchange home arrest with pre-trial detention, Zuev will stay within the pre-trial detention heart.

The protection additionally claimed that her ward wanted fixed medical care resulting from issues with the guts and blood vessels. The Federal Penitentiary Service replied that this care may be offered in a spot of detention.

In accordance with investigators, the rector of “Shaninka” fictitiously employed 12 individuals on the Institute of Social Sciences. Zuev denies these accusations. Marina Rakova, the previous Deputy Minister of Schooling of the Russian Federation, can be concerned in the identical case.

On December 9, 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke concerning the inappropriateness of holding Zuev in a pre-trial detention heart at a gathering with members of the Presidential Council for Human Rights. “I don’t see the necessity to preserve him behind bars,” he stated.