MOSCOW, August 19 (RAPSI) - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will consider as a matter of priority the complaint filed by former Makhachkala Mayor Said Amirov, who faces accusations of having ordered the murder of an investigator, lawyer Mark Kruter told RAPSI on Monday.

The appeal was considered as justified, Kruter said. The ECHR ordered to conduct a new medical examination of Amirov and provide information on its results until August 26.

Amirov has been the mayor of Makhachkala, the capital of the southern Russian region of Dagestan, since 1998. A long-term member of the ruling United Russia party, Amirov won the title of the country's best mayor in late April, according to his administration's website.

He was arrested on June 1 and transported to Moscow, where he was taken into custody on suspicion of having ordered the murder of investigator Arsen Gadzhibekov in the Dagestan city of Kaspiysk in 2011. Amirov has denounced the case as politically motivated.

Gadzhibekov, chief of the investigation department in Makhachkala's Sovetsky District, was shot dead near his home as he was getting out of his car. He had worked on a number of crimes, including the 2010 terror attack in Kizlyar that killed 10 and injured 270.

On June 4, charges were officially brought against Amirov. The investigators believe that he ordered the assassination, which was organized by Magomed Abdulgalimov, assistant city prosecutor of Kizlyar with accomplices.

On July 26, the Basmanny District Court extended Amirov's detention until November 11.