Overview
- The Investigative Committee has formally resumed investigative actions in the long-running case involving the three sisters accused of killing their father in Moscow in 2018.
- The sisters are currently under restrictions that bar them from communicating with one another, the press, and witnesses, according to a defense lawyer.
- Defense attorney Aleksey Parshin says neither the defense nor investigators have received the final text of the Moscow City Court decision regarding the father's posthumous case.
- After receiving that document, the defense intends to petition to terminate the sisters' case on grounds of necessary self-defense, citing prior court findings of sustained abuse.
- A family representative told RIA Novosti that investigators plan to maintain the original murder charges, while earlier proceedings separated the youngest sister’s case due to a finding of legal insanity at the time.