Case of Kasabov in Tambov Kasabov Igor

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Case of Kasabov in Tambov

Kasabov Igor

Updated: December 13, 2023


Name: Kasabov Igor Ivanovich

Date of Birth: August 28, 1955

Current status: Suspect

Articles of Criminal Code of Russian Federation: 282.2 (2)


Biography


How to survive a search when your wife has a disability group II, the right side of her body is paralyzed and speech is impaired, and you are registered with a cardiologist? Igor Kasabov, a believer who was subjected to criminal prosecution, needed emergency medical assistance.


Igor was born in August 1955 in Baku (Azerbaijan). He has a younger sister who lives in Armenia. The parents are no longer alive.


In his youth, Igor was fond of football and volleyball, was a radio amateur. After the army, he graduated from the Riga Civil Aviation Flight Technical School. He worked at the Baku airport as a specialist in radio engineering support of aircraft navigation and landing, then at a design institute—first as an electrician, and later as the head of the finished product production department.


Igor married Irina, a music teacher, in April 1981. In 1989, due to the tense situation in Azerbaijan, they moved to Russia, to the village of Ilskaya, Krasnodar Territory. The couple raised a son and a daughter, now they have four grandchildren. They like to travel. They lived in different cities: Armavir, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Izhevsk, Krasnoyarsk. Now they live in Tambov.


In the Krasnodar region, the Kasabovs met Jehovah's Witnesses, who showed Igor in the Bible the answers to his questions about why there is no peace and justice on earth now, as well as why people are dying. In 1993, Igor and Irina embarked on the Christian path.


Some time before the search, Igor suffered a heart attack, and Irina suffered a stroke. Both of them also had covid, after which Igor was diagnosed with coxarthrosis of both hip joints, hypertensive crises became more frequent. The spouses' eyesight is falling. The criminal prosecution aggravated the condition of the Kasabovs. They are medically registered with specialized specialists, live on a minimum pension.


Case history


In April 2023, Igor Kasabov’s apartment was searched. The next day, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against him. A pensioner from Tambov was accused of participating in the activities of an extremist organization.


Criminal case


Region:

Tambov Region

Locality:

Tambov

Suspected of:

"carried out active deliberate actions related to the continuation of the activities of the religious association of Jehovah's Witnesses on the territory of Tambov ... including through direct participation in ongoing events, conducting conversations in order to promote the activities of a banned organization" (from the decision to initiate a criminal case)

Court case number:

12302680011000016

Initiated:

April 12, 2023

Current case stage:

Preliminary investigation

Investigating:

Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Tambov Region

Articles of Criminal Code of Russian Federation:

282.2 (2)

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