Salome Zurabishvili (Mari Nikuradze/OC Media)
Preliminary results in Georgia’s second round presidential run-off election show Salome Zurabishvili winning the presidency comfortably, with 60% of votes.
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Radzhab Abdulatipov (md-gazeta.ru)
The brother of the former head of Daghestan was detained on Wednesday by the Federal Security Service (FSB) on suspicion of involvement in a criminal community issuing fake disability documents. Radzhab Abdulatipov, the brother of Ramazan Abdulatipov, is an MP in the Russian republic’s parliament, the People’s Assembly. [Read more…]
‘Hands off Iberia TV’, employees of the Iberia TV organised a protest at the government office on 10 September. (Mari Nikuradze /OC Media)
A secret audio recording released on Friday suggests that former Georgian sports minister Levan Kipiani attempted to extort expensive cars for other ministers from Omega Group, a business group that owns local TV channel Iberia TV. The authenticity of the recording has not yet been verified, but this is the second secret audio recording released in recent weeks suggesting the government is applying pressure on Omega Group. [Read more…]
Kurban Kurbanov and Musa Musayev (midag.ru)
On Tuesday, Russia’s Deputy Prosecutor General, Ivan Sydoruk, approved the indictment of Musa Musayev, the former mayor of the Daghestani capital Makhachkala. Musayev was charged with illegally giving away land worth ₽48 million ($700,000). He was originally arrested for fraud of ₽80 million ($1.2 million).
Derbent promenade (/md-gazeta.ru)
Police launched a criminal case on Monday in Makhachkala against Magomed Magomedov, the former head of the state Management for the preparation and holding events dedicated to the 2,000th anniversary of Derbent. Magomedov is accused of overstating the amount of work done during the construction of Derbent’s promenade by more than ₽44 million ($670,000).
Ramazan Aliyev (middle) (realnoevremya.ru)
The Daghestani security services have detained the acting Deputy Chair of the Government, Ramazan Aliyev, and former Minister of Health Tanka Ibragimov on fraud charges. Both were close political allies of the former head of Daghestan, Ramazan Abdulatipov.
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Kabardino-Balkaria’s Interior Ministry is investigating a criminal case for illegally obtaining bank loans. According to investigators, scammers defrauded more than ₽18 million ($300,000) from credit institutions. [Read more…]
Avtandil Khurtsidze (boxingscene.com)
World champion boxer Avtandil Khurtsidze and professional mixed martial arts fighter Levan Makashvili were among 33 members and associates of a Russian crime syndicate detained in New York on 7 June for allegedly engaging in a panoply of crimes around the country.
(Natalya Seliverstova/RIA Novosti)
Chechnya’s Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a local woman for ‘committing fraud in conspiracy with a group of people’. Grozny’s Leninsky District Court had sentenced Marina Saraliyeva, an inhabitant of Grozny, to seven years in a penal colony.
