Actor Mikhail Efremov, convicted of a fatal road accident, said that he was very happy to see his wife in the pre-trial detention center, said Marina Litvinovich, a member of the capital’s Public Monitoring Commission (POC).
“On Thursday, September 17, the wife of Mikhail Efremov visited her husband in the detention center for the first time. He told us that he was very glad to see her, “- the words of the human rights activist” RIA Novosti “.
She also spoke about the normal state of his cell. “One of the inmates cut Efremov’s hair, the artist was satisfied,” Litvinovich added.
According to one of the members of the Public Monitoring Commission, who visited the isolation ward where Efremov is being held, there is a TV, refrigerator and an electric kettle in the cell. Efremov and his two neighbors have no complaints about the conditions of detention.
On September 16, Efremov told the human rights defenders who visited him about the need to create a Russian prison theater.
On September 8, the court found Efremov guilty of committing a fatal road accident and sentenced him to eight years in prison. The next day, the artist said that he was refusing the services of the lawyer Elman Pashayev, who represented him in court. According to the actor, the lawyer set him up. Now Efremov is protected by Vladimir Vasiliev and Roman Filippov.
After the verdict was pronounced, both Pashayev, who asked to cancel the verdict, and Vasiliev, who applied for a suspended sentence, filed a complaint against him. According to him, he is counting on such a decision based on the results of the consideration of the appeal in connection with the admission of guilt and “other conditions.”
On June 8, Efremov’s car drove into the oncoming lane in the center of Moscow and collided with a “Lada” driven by the courier of the online store Sergei Zakharov. The victim died in hospital. The victims in the case were a widow, two sons and Zakharov’s brother.