Investigation of Igor Domnikov’s murder has been going on for 8 years. All this time it sways from side to side. The killers and organizers – members of Tagiryanov’s criminal group - were sentenced for life and for long terms. This sentence has not become effective yet, as the murderers are trying to appeal it. But the experts are sure that the sentence will stay after being considered in the Supreme Court.   

Our concern is not about that, but it is about outright unwillingness by investigative bodies to establish the role in this murder by former governor of Lipetsk region Dorovskoi and his business partner Sopot who lives in Moscow. We are absolutely sure it was them to order that murder. After our numerous applications, a pre-investigative check was started about the persons in question by order from A. Bastrykin, the head of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor’s Office. 

But in December last year we received a refusal from the city of Naberezhnye Chelny to start a criminal case, despite the fact that not only potential witnesses but even the suspects themselves had not been examined. Well, on the one hand, we can understand the investigator from Tatarstan: how is he supposed to heck the circumstances of the crime committed by people who are not formally convicted and there is no possibility to require the materials of the criminal case. Besides, the suspects live in Lipetsk and Moscow, and not in Naberezhnye Chelny.

On the other hand, however, it’s difficult to understand why no response has been given so far to the complaint by the lawyer of the victim’s wife. The complaint was sent in December and was repeatedly sent in March. The lawyer insisted on canceling the decision of refusal to start a criminal case and insisted on making the new check in Moscow, the place where the crime was committed. The prosecutor’s office not giving any response, can it be that some thieves have got inside and have stolen all the correspondence?    

Talking seriously, we insist on receiving the immediate response so that to understand the course of further actions: shall we have to wait the check to be started or shall we appeal the prosecutor’s office decision in the court?