The UN Committee has prohibited Georgia from extraditing Mikhail Timofeev to Russia.

The UN Human Rights Committee has decided to apply interim measures, under which Georgia must refrain from extraditing Mikhail Timofeev to Russia until his complaint is considered.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot", on September 4, the Tbilisi City Court ruled to extradite Mikhail Timofeev to Russia - an associate and former assistant of the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Sergey Furgal.

The UN Human Rights Committee has applied an interim measure and prohibited Georgia from extraditing Mikhail Timofeev to Russia, reports the Pirveli television company, citing lawyer Rusudan Mchedlishvili.

According to Mchedlishvili, the decision will be sent to the Ministry of Justice promptly, and the state is obliged to take it into account. "The UN Committee clearly states that all procedures - extradition and deportation - must be suspended until the case is resolved in the Committee," the lawyer stated.

Mikhail Timofeev is a third-group disabled person suffering from severe illnesses (heart failure, hepatitis C). His health was undermined during his previous imprisonment in Russia, where he was subjected to torture, which has been officially confirmed by the decision of the European Court of Human Rights, which recognized that punishment as illegal.

Earlier, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested Mikhail Timofeev in absentia as part of a criminal case regarding the murder of businessman Yevgeny Zory from Khabarovsk in 2004. The former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Sergey Furgal, was convicted for organizing his murder, as reported by the unified press service of the courts of general jurisdiction in Moscow on December 27, 2023.

Furgal, who was found guilty by the jury, was sentenced to 23 years. In December 2025, he received a new guilty verdict - this time for economic articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, with a total sentence of 25 years. According to the investigation, Zory's murder was committed by members of Timofeev's gang in the interests of Sergey Furgal, writes "Kommersant".

Timofeev was previously a freelance assistant to Furgal and, according to law enforcement agencies, led an influential organized crime group in the region called "Moiseevskie" (named after the sports club "Moisey", which it allegedly used as a cover). The group controlled several territories in Khabarovsk, engaging in racketeering and money laundering. In 2011, Mikhail Timofeev was sentenced to eight years for extortion (Article 163 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). After being released from prison in 2019, he left Russia, according to the publication.