Nursultan Musulmankulov, a resident of the East Kazakhstan region, once worked as an operative of the regime department in the colony of strict regime OV-156/2, located in Ust-Kamenogorsk. As it turned out, while working, he used torture on prisoners.
When Musulmankulov resigned from a strict regime colony, there was not a word in the court verdict in his case. It is only known that recently he worked as a sales representative in the company “Kulan Oil” (the company is the official distributor of ExxonMobil in Kazakhstan). And everything was fine with him until January 17 of this year, when Musulmankulov was arrested on charges of torture when he was an employee of the colony in 2015, that is, 7 years after the crime was committed.
The investigation into the case lasted three months and on April 15 it went to court. Interesting details of the service of the former detective Musulmankulov surfaced there.
On September 25, 2015, Musulmankulov summoned convict A. Ryzhanov to his office and, putting pressure on him, threatened him to agree to teach another convict Alexander Serov a lesson for allegedly violating the conditions of serving a sentence.
After consent was obtained, Serov was brought into the office. Musulmankulov forced him to stretch his arms forward and Ryszhanov began to beat them with a special three-layer belt.
On December 24, 2015, Musulmankulov summoned Ryszhanov again. Together with some person unidentified during the investigation, he again ordered the convict to torture – however, to another inmate, Almas Yelekenov.
Ryzhanov tried to refuse but in vain. Musulmankulov and another unidentified person threatened him that if he refused, they themselves would torture him, and also promised to enter information in his personal file that would deprive him of his chances of receiving parole. Ryszhanov had to fulfill the requirements. According to the already familiar scheme, Yelekenov was brought into the office. Musulmankulov forced him to stretch out his arms and Ryzhanov delivered 10-15 blows to his palms with the same three-layer belt. At the same time, an unidentified second employee filmed the execution process on a mobile phone.
The next day, December 25, Musulmankulov again forced Ryszhanov to become a torture executioner. Alexander Serov was again chosen as a victim. And again, the blows with the belt on the hands were recorded on the camera of the mobile phone.
It should be noted that Musulmankulov did not admit the accusations against him at the trial. Meanwhile, convicted Yelekenov and Serov fully supported the charges. In addition, Serov stated that he had filed a civil suit against Musulmankulov for non-pecuniary damage in the amount of $2,000.
During the process, the court examined not only the testimonies of the victims themselves and the witness Ryzhanov, but also the videos found on the laptop of another former operative officer OV-156/2, Almas Serikov.
“During the inspection of the laptop, three video files were found in the Hunting folder, which depicted the facts of torture against Yelekenov and Serov,” the court verdict says.
It is noteworthy that the aforementioned Almas Serikov is also now serving a sentence for bullying a convict. In October last year, Almas Serikov and six other employees of the colony OV-156/2 Yerbulan Abiltaev, Rauan Okpebaev, Ruslan Tuleubaev, Akzhol Bokishev, Yerzhan Bakytkan, and Nurbek Sovetkan were sentenced to various terms for torture, which negligently resulted in the death of prisoner Andrei Kondratenko in July 2019.
Based on this, we can safely assume that the torture of convicts in the OV-156/2 strict regime colony is quite common. And, apparently, it was thanks to the Kondratenko case, in which the investigators detained Almas Serikov and searched his house, as a result of which video evidence of bullying of convicts Serov and Yelekenov, was discovered, that they managed to find out about the crimes committed by Musulmankulov.
“Recognize Nursultan Musulmankulov guilty of committing the crime he is accused of and sentence him under this article in the form of imprisonment for a period of 3.5 years with deprivation of the right to hold positions in the public service and in law enforcement agencies for a period of three years with serving a sentence in a general regime colony, as well as deprive the title of “Captain of Justice”. Partially satisfy Serov’s civil claim against Musulmankulov for compensation for non-pecuniary damage. Collect from Musulmankulov in favor of Serov compensation for non-pecuniary damage in the amount of $645. Reject the rest of the claim,” that was the verdict issued by the judge of Ust-Kamenogorsk City Court No. 2 Serik Zhanseit.
