According to him, the investigation "did not try to identify the customer."
“Moreover, according to the IC, the operatives planted drugs on the journalist in order to improve his performance, get gratitude and encouragement,” the TASS lawyer is quoted as saying.
Earlier, the former head of the drug control department of the Internal Affairs Directorate for ZAO Moscow Lyakhovets said that he intends to ask the Prosecutor General's Office to resume the investigation against Golunov.
On July 22, the Moscow City Court canceled the order to extend the arrest of four ex-policemen and sent the investigation's petition for reconsideration to the Basmanny Court.
Golunov was detained on June 6, 2019 in the center of Moscow; a bag of drugs was found in his backpack, which, he said, had been planted on him. All charges were subsequently dropped from him.
In January, the court arrested Igor Lyakhovets, Denis Konovalov, Roman Feofanov, Akbar Sergaliev and Maxim Umetbaev, who took part in the arrest. They are accused of abuse of office, falsification of evidence and drug trafficking.
Later Konovalov confessed and was transferred to house arrest, the rest of the defendants were extended their detention until the fall.