The Ingodinsky district court will resume examination of his complaint on Thursday.

On Tuesday this week the Ingodinsky district court in Chita began hearing Platon Lebedev’s official complaint about the unlawful actions of investigator T.V. Rusanova of the Prosecutor General's office in concealing instances of falsification of materials in his first criminal case.

Today’s hearing began with the court’s refusal to uphold a petition from the claimant and his lawyers, submitted yesterday, for the complaint to be transferred to the jurisdiction of the Basmanny district court in Moscow. A new petition then followed from Platon Lebedev, requesting that the court subpoena investigator Rusanova to appear as a witness. “My complaint concerns her directly. Let the investigator explain those instances about which we have made our complaint," said Lebedev, according to the Interfax news agency. The Ingodinsky court declined this petition as well.

“As long as the court considers that there is no need, at the present stage, to summon a witness, everything is clear,” commented Lebedev’s lawyer Igor Sapozhkov. “No one, including the prosecutor, denies the circumstances described in our complaint.”

Due to the busy schedule of the judge, who is today the duty judge for cases before the Ingodinsky court, the hearings have been adjourned until 11 am on Thursday.