Russian players - Zenit striker 27-year-old Alexander Kokorin and Krasnodar midfielder Pavel Mamaev, 30, after a fight in the cafe Kofemania on Moscow’s Nikitsky Boulevard detained for 48 hours in a hooligan case. On Wednesday, October 10, the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Irina Volk, and the head of the department of communications at the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, Yuri Titov, reported..
According to the Telegram channel Mash, the detainees will most likely be placed in temporary detention facility No. 1 on Petrovka Street, where the conditions are “like in prison”.
During this time, the investigation will collect evidence in the case and make a petition for a preventive measure.. This will be either an arrest, house arrest, or on his own recognizance.
According to the channel, the players fully admitted their guilt and “very upset by the situation".
Meanwhile, earlier Kokorin was late for questioning in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Umalat Saygitov, who is an athlete’s lawyer, explained what happened: “The investigator called us at 5:00 pm for interrogation, which was scheduled for 6:00 pm. This is not done, we just did not have time ".
Mamaev arrived on time, with him held investigative measures.
The article about hooliganism, which is imputed to both, involves a punishment ranging from a fine of 300-500 thousand rubles to imprisonment for up to five years.
Russian football players have become figurants of a resonant scandal. Athletes suspected of participating in two incidents that occurred in Moscow on October 8. Thus, in the area of ??the Beijing Hotel, the surveillance cameras captured the beating of the driver of the lead Channel One, in which Kokorin and Mamayev allegedly participated.
Later, the players staged a fight in one of the cafes, which resulted in Denis Pak, the head of the automotive industry and railway engineering department of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and Sergey Gaisin, CEO of NAMI, who suffered..
Kokorin and Mamaev are not the first time in the center of scandal. In 2016, it became known that they participated in a party in one of the most expensive Monte Carlo clubs shortly after the failure of the Russian national team at Euro 2016.