Detention on remand extended
On 23 April, the Moscow District court in Nizhnii Novgorod extended Mikhail Iosilevich's detention on remand until 28 June. At the same hearing his lawyer found out that the investigation had initiated another criminal case against Mikhail - on charges of a "threat to kill or to cause grievous bodily harm committed with motives of enmity or in connection with performing by a threatened individual of their officials duties or citizen's duties", Article 119(2) of the Russian Criminal Code. The investigation had opened this criminal case even though three independent experts confirmed that the voice of a person who had called threatening a witness in the original case against Mikhail Iosilevich did not match his voice.
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