A police officer was sentenced to 20 years in prison for masterminding the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in 2006. released and currently fighting in Ukraine, This was reported today by the Baza Telegram channel.

Chechen Sergey Khadzhikurbanov, convicted in 2014 by a Russian court, agreed to fight at the front at the end of 2022 in exchange for release.

He started as a commander of an intelligence unit and was then promoted to battalion commander depending on the source.

Khadzhikurbanov completed six mandatory months of combat, But when the deadline approached, he decided to extend the contract, says Baza.

In 2014, a Russian court sentenced the former police officer to 20 years in prison. life imprisonment for Rustam Maymudov, the main author of the murder, and his uncle Lom-Ali Gaitukaev, who allegedly organized the crime.

Both the Politkovskaya family and the leadership New Newspaperwhere the journalist worked, they repeatedly wondered whether the convicts were the only organizers of the murder and They criticized the official investigation’s lack of transparency.

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The murder of Politkovskaya, born in New York in 1958, was carried out when the journalist prepared an article about systematic torture in Chechnya, which was published by his colleagues five days after his death.

In recent months, the media and relatives of the victims have condemned release of prisoners sentenced to long prison terms for serious crimes, including bloody crimes.

(EFE)