Opposition activist Razvozzhayev turns himself in - Investigative Committee

12:51, 22.10.2012 1 min read

Leonid Razvozzhayev, an aide to State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomaryov, has confessed to investigators that the massive unrest that occurred in Moscow's Bolotnaya Square on May 6 had been financed by the former head of the Georgian parliament committee for defense and security Givi Targamadze, official spokesman for the Investigative Committee of Russia Vladimir Markin has told Interfax.

"On October 21 Razvozzhayev himself contacted the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee and said he was willing to turn himself in," Markin said.

"He described in detail the circumstances of the way he, Left Front coordinator Sergei Udaltsov and other persons had planned to organize massive unrest in the territory of the Russian Federation and also the involvement of the said persons in massive unrest that occurred in Bolotnaya Square on May 6," Markin said.

"It follows from Razvozzhayev's confession that this unrest was financed by Targamadze," Markin said.