Ex-Russian security officer who turned on Kremlin sent back home

Poland has deported a former Russian intelligence officer with the counterintelligence unit of the Federal Safety Service (FSB), denying his repeated requests for asylum and handing him back over to Russian authorities, experiences stated Wednesday.

Emran Navruzbekov was deported to Russia after a Polish court docket dominated final week that he posed a risk to the nation’s safety when he allegedly refused to obey police calls for and was aggressive whereas dwelling in a refugee camp in Poland’s Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship province, reported Radio Free Europe. 

Navruzbekov, who had first utilized for asylum in 2017 after handing over 500 recordsdata of categorized paperwork, accused the FSB of fabricating “terrorist cases” against residents in Russia’s north Caucasus area of Dagestan.

Folks stroll previous the headquarters of the Federal Safety Service, the successor company to the KGB, in central Moscow on March 3, 2023. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)

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It’s unclear why his software was initially denied by Polish authorities as his spouse and youngsters had been granted asylum.

The previous FSB worker reapplied for asylum in October 2022 and remained within the Polish refugee camp whereas he awaited his attraction earlier than he was detained on Might 17 by authorities over allegedly aggressive conduct.

Navruzbekov has denied the accusations.

Particulars surrounding his claims towards Russia’s chief intelligence company got here to mild earlier this yr when he instructed Russian retailers that he and different Russian intelligence officers left or had been planning to depart the FSB to keep away from committing crimes.

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Russian law enforcement officials work on the website the place FSB forces killed 5 folks, together with a Jordanian described as an al Qaeda chief, in Khasavyurt, Russia, on Nov. 26, 2006. (Bashir Aliev/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)

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Navruzbekov alleged that Russia’s FSB officers arrange “managed terrorist assaults,” conduct extrajudicial killings beneath the guise of “liquidating terrorists,” have interaction in torture and falsify felony circumstances towards harmless folks in “revenge for his or her refusal to cooperate and fulfill the directions of the particular providers.”

The previous FSB officer instructed Radio Free Europe in January that he finally determined to flee Russia after he was given an project in Turkey to gather details about exiled opposition activists from Dagestan, Chechnya and different north Caucasus areas.

“I made a decision to run away from the felony system,” he told the outlet.

He fled to Poland through Belarus by interesting to a Polish border guard, telling the guard that he carried categorized paperwork.

Guards patrol the wall on the Polish-Belarus border close to Bialowieza, Poland, on Might 29, 2023. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)

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Navruzbekov stated he determined to talk out in January to indicate he has “nothing in widespread with the Russian particular providers” because the Russia-Ukraine war continued.

Fox Information Digital couldn’t instantly attain the Polish Ministry of International Affairs for touch upon its refusal to grant Navruzbekov asylum and his subsequent deportation.