Jailed Veteran Turns to Lie Detector Test

An Interior Troops officer serving a 15-year sentence on charges of killing three civilians during the Chechen conflict will seek a retrial after a polygraph test indicated his innocence, his lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky said. Former Colonel Sergei Arakcheyev and fellow officer Sergei Khudyakov were convicted in 2007 of robbing and killing three construction workers in Chechnya in 2003. They pleaded not guilty and were cleared twice in jury trials before […]