Daghestan
Former police chief and pension fund official accused of financing terrorism in Daghestan
A court in the Russian Republic of Daghestan has remanded two former senior officials into two months of pre-trial detention on suspicion of financing terrorist activities. On 31 March and 1 April, the Sovietsky District Court in the Daghistani capital Makhachkala held pre-trial hearings for the former head of the republic’s pension delivery department, Omar Abdurashidov, and former Makhachkala police chief Raip Ashikov. Lawyers for both men told OC Media that the criminal case was politi
