Punishment Time: Embezzling Dagestani Head of Government Arrested For Stealing Millions of Roubles
The results are known. Several high-ranking officials were detained at once. On the eve, the court chose the punishment for the region's former Acting Chairman of the Government, his deputies, and former education minister. The investigation claims all of them were involved in embezzlement of public funds. The losses amount to dozens of million roubles.
Vitaly Karmazin will tell about the palaces they had to trade in for prison cells.
Amazingly beautiful scenery. Sunrise in the mountain village of Kigi. A hilltop house of former Dagestan Head of Government Abdusamad Gamidov. He was arrested on a charge of stealing millions of roubles. This is the new video of searches at the convicts' houses. The white two-level hall, animal skins on the banisters, portraits of horse riders. Here's the guest room. Wooden furniture, a fireplace, and a surprise in the pantry, two Kalashnikov guns.
- Bolts up!
Dusty weapons seem to have spent much time without use. The house owner seems to like gilded pistols a lot more. This is the Stechkin pistol decorated with gems, the special services weapon. The gilding on the trigger looks shabby, indicating it was fired from often. There's one more pistol in a gift box near it. It lacks seven bullets.
There are also folders labeled "The Government of Dagestan"/ Here's a Borz subgun. It was very popular in the early 90s amongst participants of underground groups. These are not the only weapons confiscated from the defendants. Earlier, the police investigators published this video. The Beretta and PM pistols, and this one is a golden TT with the letters G.A.M. They stand for Gamidov Abdusamad Mustafayevich.
Here he is handcuffed. Together with him, police investigators detained two of his deputies, Shamil Isayev and Rayudin Yusufov, and the former education minister, Shakhabas Shakov. All four were transported to Moscow on an FSB plane. There's a magnificent house with a stone fence on the Caspian shore. Lions' heads on the gates.
This is the mansion of the ex-education minister, Shakhabas Shakov. According to investigators, Shakhabas Shakov was one of the participants in the scheme for stealing 20 million while reconstructing a kindergarten. One more case is related to the reconstruction of this special immigrant receiving office in Makhachkala. Investigators are sure that the defendants overcharged the cost of work using false tendering. The third case is related to the money received to be used at the personal resort of one of the defendants, the Aerie.
On the eve, four defendants in the case were arrested, Now, investigators are looking for other defendants connected to the fraud.
Vitaly Karmazin, Andrei Ivlev, and Stanislav Petrov, Vesti, Dezhurnaya Chast.