Azerbaijan, Baku, July 27 / Trend E. Kosolapova/
Lawyers of border guard Vladislav Chelakh suspected of killing 15 people in Kazakhstan will appeal for substitution of investigators working on the case, Novosti-Kazakhstan reported with the reference to lawyer Vasily Rezvan.
"Today we will appeal to the Prosecutor General, because all our appeals to the Chief Military Prosecutor had not been heard. We ask the Attorney General to conduct an official investigation on testimonies given under pressure," Rezvan said on Friday at the press conference in Almaty.
Rezvan added that the defense can demand to substitute investigators, who, according to Chelakh forced him to incriminate himself.
On May 30 a fire took place on Arkankergen border post on Kazakh-Chinese border. In summer 15 frontier guards serve at this post. Some 15 corpses were founded at the scene including 14 border guards and a hunter from the nearby hunting ground located near the post. The fifteenth border guard was found alive near the post. Later border guard Vladislav Chelakh confessed that he killed his colleagues when they were asleep and then set fire to the barracks, where they were, the Kazakh Prosecutor General's Office reported. Chelakh named internal conflicts and clouding of consciousness as the reason of killing his colleagues. The investigation is underway.
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