Presidential human rights commissioner Vladimir Lukin has filed an action against employees of a Moscow police station, accusing them of negligence and dereliction of duty, the Rossiskaya Gazeta newspaper reported Wednesday.
The action was filed against a district police station in southern Moscow on a behalf of Moscow resident Margarita Gavrilova. In August of 2000 the woman notified the police station she had been defrauded of her cash by a group of swindlers.
Gavrilova claimed the offenders had put her in a state of trance forcing her to part with all the cash she had on her. Police investigators, however, ignored her complaints and the woman was forced to look for the culprits on her own. A month later she brought the gang to the police station herself only to find out shortly afterwards that they had been released.
The woman lodged complaints with Moscow’s top police authority and the prosecutor’s office. In the winter of 2001 two senior police officials at the Vykhino police station were reprimanded, but Gavrilova said the measure was not sufficient.
In the fall of 2003 she sued the police authority and the Finance Ministry for moral damages but the court rejected her claim saying the police who had failed to apprehend the wrongdoers did not inflict any moral damage on the plaintiff. http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/09/07/lukinaction.shtml
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