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Son of ex-Prime Minister of Russia’s Dagestan acquitted of student murder

Moscow’s Nikulinsky District Court on Tuesday basing on the jurors’ verdict acquitted Murtuzali Medzhidov, the son of ex-head of Dagestan’s government Mukhtar Medzhidov, of murder of a female student of Moscow State University of Foreign Affairs.

11:37 08.06.2021

Ex-member of notorious Basayev gang gets 14 years for infringement on servicemen life

A former member of Shamil Basayev and Emir Khattab’s gang living in Russia’s Stavropol Territory Mavlimberdi Akbulatov has received 14 years in high-security colony for infringement on the military personnel’s life.

10:39 30.03.2021

Russian woman ordered to 3-year jail for $4.5 mln cigarette smuggling

A court in Russia’s Astrakhan has sentenced a woman from the Republic of Dagestan to 3 years in penal colony for tobacco products smuggling in the amount of more than 320 million rubles (about $4.5 million).

13:09 17.03.2021

Former Dagestan information official extradited from Slovenia

Ex-Minister for Information Policy and Mass Communications of Russia’s Republic of Dagestan Nariman Gadzhiyev charged with embezzling over 2 million rubles has been extradited from Slovenia.

14:42 12.02.2021

Officers accused of providing convicts with falsified good conduct certificates face trial

A court in Dagestan town of Makhachkala is to hear a criminal case over falsification of good conduct certificates issued to convicts seeking conditional release.

17:54 30.11.2020

Dagestan police officer put in detention over 2010 Moscow metro bombings

Moscow’s Basmanny District Court has placed a chief of a Dagestan’s police district department Gazi Isayev in detention until January 4 as part of a case over two two terrorist attacks committed in the Moscow underground in 2010.

10:01 24.11.2020

Investigators seek to detain Dagestan police officer in 2010 Moscow metro bombings case

The Basmanny District Court on Monday received a motion from investigators seeking to detain a chief of a Dagestan’s police district department Gazi Isayev until January 4 as part of a case over two two terrorist attacks committed at the Moscow metro stations in 2010.

16:38 23.11.2020

Two alleged 1999 Dagestan assailants arrested by law enforcement officers

Two men have been arrested by law enforcement on suspicion of involvement in fatal attacks against members of Russian military forces in the Republic of Dagestan over 20 years ago, in August 1999.

17:41 21.10.2020

Dagestan police colonel jailed for 9 years in $6 mln bribery case

Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court has sentenced Colonel Magomed Khizriyev, ex-head of the Dagestan Republic’s Interior Ministry operative department, to 9 years in a high-security prison in a $6 million bribery case.

11:00 09.10.2020

Investigation launched into fatal school bus crash in Dagestan

Investigators on Thursday launched a probe into a school minibus road traffic accident in Russia’s Republic of Dagestan resulting in the death of 3 persons.

13:13 08.10.2020

Russian police apprehend six convicts escaped from penal colony in Dagestan

Russian law enforcement officers have arrested six convicts, who could escape from a penal colony in Dagestan.

16:28 30.09.2020

Moscow court upholds ex-Dagestan PM's 6.5-year sentence for embezzlement

The Moscow City Court on Tuesday upheld a 6.5-year sentence passed upon a former acting chair of Dagestan government Abdusamad Gamidov for the 41 million-ruble embezzlement (over $580,000).

15:02 30.06.2020

Three criminal cases opened in Russia’s Dagestan over COVID-19 fake news

Dagestani investigators have launched three cases over distribution of fake news about the spread of coronavirus via WhatsApp.

17:45 08.06.2020

Ex-Deputy PM of Russia’s Dagestan gets 4.5 years in jail in embezzlement case

Moscow’s Lefortovsky District Court on Thursday sentenced a former deputy chairman of the government of Russia’s Republic of Dagestan Shamil Isayev to 4.5 years in prison as part of an embezzlement case.

17:37 16.01.2020

Ex-Dagestan antimonopoly official to serve 5-year jail term for bribery – appeals court

A 5-year prison sentence passed on the former chief of the Federal Antimonopoly Service’s Dagestan Directorate Kubasay Kubasayev for receiving over 2 million rubles in bribes (over $30,000) was upheld on Thursday.

16:18 31.10.2019

Ex-Dagestan official convicted of embezzlement faces corruption trial - prosecutors

A former stand-in chairman of the government of Dagestan Abdusamad Gamidov, who was convicted of embezzlement on Monday, is also charged with several counts of corruption crimes, deputy chief of the Prosecutor General’s Office’s Department for Supervision over Investigation of Major Cases Sergey Bochkarev told RAPSI.

16:57 28.10.2019

Two ex-officials of Russia’s Dagestan ordered to jail for $640k embezzlement

Two ex-officials of Russia’s Republic of Dagestan on Monday were sentenced to prison for embezzlement of 41 million rubles (over $640,000).

14:00 28.10.2019

Two former Dagestani officials found guilty of $640,000 embezzlement

Moscow’s Lefortovsky District Court on Monday found a former stand-in chairman of the government of Dagestan Abdusamad Gamidov and a former stand-in deputy prime minister Rayudin Yusufov guilty of embezzling 41 million rubles (over $640,000).

12:48 28.10.2019

Prosecutor General’s Office to check information about criminal prosecution of journalist

The Prosecutor General’s Office is to check if criminal proceedings have been launched against Abdulmumin Gadzhiyev, a journalist of Chernovik newspaper, after the Presidential Council for Human Rights spoke in his defense.

13:01 29.07.2019

Four men get harsh sentence for taking part in attack against Russian troops 20 years ago

Four men have been sentenced to long prison terms for involvement in the attack against members of Russian military forces in the Republic of Dagestan nearly 20 years ago, in August 1999.

17:21 01.07.2019