The high-profile trial ended on Friday, June 30. Colonels and lieutenant colonels of the police turned out to be in the dock – two ex-heads of the criminal police department of the Shymkent City Police Department, an ex-employee of the criminal police of the Shymkent City Police Department and an ex-head of the criminal police department of the Karatau District Police Department.
They were accused under the article “Commission of torture in a group of persons, negligently resulting in the death of the victim” and “Exceeding power with the use of violence in order to gain profit.” The judge gave the defendants jail terms.
“By a court verdict, the defendant, the ex-head of the Criminal Police Department of Shymkent, was found guilty and sentenced to seven years and six months in prison, with deprivation of the right to hold positions in law enforcement agencies for a period of three years, and was also deprived of the rank of police colonel.
The ex-head of the Department of Criminal Investigation of Shymkent was finally sentenced to seven years in prison, with the deprivation of the right to hold positions in law enforcement agencies for a period of three years, and was also deprived of the rank of police colonel.
The ex-head of the police department of the Karatau region was finally sentenced to three years and six months in prison, with deprivation of the right to hold positions in law enforcement agencies for a period of three years, and was also deprived of the rank of police lieutenant colonel.
An ex-employee of the criminal police of the Shymkent City Police Department was sentenced to two years in prison, with deprivation of the right to hold positions in law enforcement agencies for a period of three years, and was also deprived of the rank of police lieutenant colonel,” Svetlana Shynalieva, a judge of the Shymkent Specialized Interdistrict Court, read out the verdict.
It is noted that when imposing punishment, the court took into account the opinion of the representatives of the victims, the presence of mitigating and aggravating circumstances of criminal liability and punishment.
Nurbolat Zhumabaev and Sergey Petrov were suspected of car theft and were taken to the Shymkent police station in December 2021. At the same time, Zhumabaev was beaten on the street by special forces, although he did not run away and did not resist.
During the interrogation, Nurbolat became ill, and the ambulance did not help either. Doctors had only to ascertain the death of a young man. Later, Sergei Petrov, who was detained along with the deceased, said that they were interrogated for 12 hours and physical force was used against them.
There were no surveillance cameras in the investigation room. According to the head of the police department, they are installed only in the corridor. The case on the fact of the death of a man was then transferred to the Department of Homeland Security and the city prosecutor’s office.
