Unpursued suspect in Boris Nemtsov murder case repeatedly visited occupied Ukraine in recent years, journalists find
Artur Geremeyev, a suspect in the 2015 murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov whom state investigators failed to question because he didn’t open the door when they came to his home, has been located in the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DNR), according to Agentstvo Media.
Citing border service data, the outlet reported that Geremeyev crossed the Russia-Ukraine border six times in May and June 2023, using checkpoints in Russia’s Rostov region and annexed Crimea.
Artur Geremeyev is the nephew of Ruslan Geremeyev, a close associate of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and another figure linked to the Nemtsov case. The younger Geremeyev served as his uncle’s driver. In October 2023, Ruslan Geremeyev was reported to have taken command of Chechnya’s Sheikh Mansur Battalion.
The day after Nemtsov’s assassination, a surveillance camera recorded Artur Geremeyev leaving an apartment building on Moscow’s Veernaya Street, where some of the perpetrators had stayed, before departing for Chechnya.
When investigators later went to the Geremeyev family’s registered address in Chechnya to question them, they were unable to deliver subpoenas, as no one answered the door. Artur Geremeyev’s whereabouts were publicly unknown for the next nine years, Agentstvo reported.
