Russian prosecutors contest arrest of Domodedovo airport owner

MOSCOW, Apr 13 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has contested arrest of Domodedovo airport owner Dmitry Kamenshchik, who is charged with poor passenger inspection which preconditioned a terrorist attack in the airport in 2011, and three other defendants in the case, Deputy Director Vladimir Malinovsky told Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper on Wednesday.

“Our position remains unchanged. We still believe that the case has no components of the crime envisaged by the 238th clause of the Criminal Code. We also do not agree with the pre-trial restrictions of the suspects. Over the past few days we submitted cassational representation to the presidium of the Moscow City Court to abolish the pre-trial restrictions over all four defendants in the case,” Malinovsky said.

Kamenshchik and Svetlana Trishina, ex-CEO of the Airport Management Company’s Russian representative office were put under house arrest in February in the framework of a new criminal case to punish people who could have caused the explosion in Domodedovo. The airport’s ex-CEO Vyacheslav Nekrasov and Domodedovo Airport Aviation Security former Managing Director Andrei Danilov were put in jail.

Kamenshchik earlier contested the criminal case.

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