In City Court No.2 of Atyrau, the trial in the case of four policemen, who were accused of covering up the abduction and rape, has been ended.
This story began in April last year. A resident of Atyrau, citizen D., met a young man on social networks. After some time, they met and began to live together. Soon they parted. The woman, who, by the way, had three children, didn’t want to continue their relationships, but the guy, on the contrary, insisted on resuming them. Every day he watched for her near the house and entreated her to return to him. And one day he forced the lady of his heart into the car, took her to a rented apartment and raped her. As Alisa Satanova, the sister of the victim, later said, as soon as she became aware of the rape, she persuaded her sister to call the police. They were waiting for the district police officer all day; he came only late in the evening. And as it turned out, the women were waiting for him in vain; the policeman refused to accept the complaint, saying that it should be written at the police station at the scene of the incident.
The next day, according to Satanova, her sister went to the police station, but on the way she ran into the rapist who was waiting for her. She hid from him in a store and called the police. They took her to the station, but demanded that she write a statement that there was no violence; they allegedly took from the offender a document stating that he would no longer approach the victim.
However, the document didn’t help her. The very next day, the rapist broke into his victim’s house. She had to call the police again. Then he was judged, but not for rape, harassment and invasion, but for … drinking alcoholic beverages in a public place and verbal abuse. The court placed him under administrative arrest for two days.
Immediately after his release, the rapist again went to his victim. According to the usual scheme, he again broke into the house, severely beat the woman, and then hit her on the head with an ax. After that, he closed himself in the toilet. The policemen, who arrived at the call, broke into the toilet and found that the rapist had hanged himself.
After the outcry caused by this story, Bolat Kushkaliyev (deputy head of the police department of Atyrau region) said that the police officers, who committed the violations, were brought to strict disciplinary responsibility and removed from their positions. In addition, a case was initiated under the article “Negligence” against the police officers.
In September last year, the case went to court. In the dock were district inspectors Kanat Abisatov and Zinel Kairov, as well as detective Aslanbek Tarikhov and investigator Isa Lukmanov.
The district police officers were charged with inaction in the service, which entailed grave consequences. The detective and the investigator were charged with concealing a criminal offense that entailed the concealment of a particularly serious crime or grave consequences committed by a group of persons by prior agreement. As it was established by the court, the district inspectors, having not considered the victim’s statement, hid it. Kairov drew up a fictitious report and didn’t take any action to solve the crime. Thus, they committed official inaction in order to facilitate their work.
“Despite the fact that the victim turned to them for help, detective Tarikhov and investigator Lukmanov, without taking any measures to investigate her abduction and rape, simplified their work, deceived the latter and deliberately concealed two serious crimes from registration,” the court noted in its statement.
The court, chaired by judge Elmira Oikulova, concluded that the guilt of the police officers was fully proven and appointed Abisatov, Kairov and Tarikhov four years in prison, and three years in prison for investigator Lukmanov. In addition, the court deprived the district police officers of the right to work in law enforcement agencies for life; for the detective and the investigator, this ban, by court decision, is limited to five years. In addition, the defendants were deprived of special ranks.
But most importantly, the court clearly favored the detective Tarikhov and investigator Lukmanov. By decision of judge Oikulova, both convicts were immediately amnestied: Tarikhov’s term was reduced by one year and four months, and Lukmanov – by one year.
