FSB documents in the prosecution of Crimean Tatar activist Suleyman Kadyrov appear to be written by the same person as the ‘court’ rulings. This is only one of the features of a prosecution described by the defence as “fabricated from start to finish”. Kadyrov’s lawyer Alexander Popkov noticed the apparently identical handwriting while collecting material for the European Court of Human Rights. He calls the case a conveyor belt, with one FSB captain filling in the paperwork, including the rubberstamp court rulings.
Mediazona has published the relevant documents and it certainly does look as though the 2016 application for a wiretapping warrant, apparently signed by the head of Russia’s FSB Viktor Palagin, was the same as that signed by the head of the Russian-controlled ‘High Court’, Igor Rodionov.
