NAZRAN, Russia. Nov 8 (Interfax) - A former senior policeman in the Russian republic of Ingushetia has been sentenced to eight years in a high-security prison for torturing a suspect as well as other crimes.
Ilyas Nalgiyev, who was deputy police chief of the city of Karabulak, was charged with infliction of injury, unlawful possession of a firearm and abuse of office, a source in the Karabulak city court told Interfax.
In 2010, Nalgiyev tortured suspect Zelimkhan Chitigov in an attempt to force him to confess to complicity in a terrorist attack, the source said. Nalgiyev also beat fellow policemen on several occasions and used cars belonging to detainees or suspects who were in hiding.
Karabulak police chief Nazir Guliyev was also charged, but was acquitted by the city court.