He said that “immediately after the appearance of information about the findings of the examination about the presence of ethanol in the blood of the child”, the ombudsman’s office made a request to the investigating authorities with a request to report the results of the check.
“In addition, we asked to tell what investigative steps were taken to establish the reasons for the presence of ethanol in the boy’s blood,” RIA Novosti quotes Shabardin.
He said that this case is under his special control.
“We will wait for the results at our request, then we will be able to give an assessment,” the Ombudsman added.
Earlier, the chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, put control of the investigation.
The case was transferred to the first department for the investigation of especially important cases of the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee in the region.
In July, a six-year-old boy on a bicycle was hit by a car to death. A policeman was driving a car.
According to media reports, 0.51 ppm of alcohol was found in the child’s blood. The results of the examination caused distrust among the relatives of the deceased.