Tatar activist detained in Kazan, questioned in financial fraud probe
RFE/RL’s Tatar-Bashkir Service, 15 August 2018
A Tatar activist says he has been detained for questioning by Russian police as part of an investigation into suspected financial fraud.
Nail Nabiullin told RFE/RL by telephone that he was detained on August 15 in Kazan, the capital of Russia’s Tatarstan region, and brought to a police station.
There, Nabiullin said he was told that a person resembling him had taken out a loan of 30,800 rubles ($460) in 2017 from a local bank and failed to pay it back.
Police officers showed Nabiullin a photo of the suspect, who the activist said did not look like him at all. Continue reading “Article: Tatar activist detained in Kazan, questioned in financial fraud probe”
