In Kazan on Friday, an attempt was made on the life of the former Minister of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, Colonel Daut Korigov. At about 7.30, when he, getting ready for work, as usual, left the entrance of his house on Zakiev Street, an unknown criminal fired at a policeman with a pistol. With several injuries, Mr. Korigov was urgently sent to the hospital, but doctors were unable to save him. 5 hours later the colonel died. It was not possible to apprehend the criminal without delay. Recently, Daut Korigov held the position of deputy head of the environmental police service of Tatarstan. However, operatives are confident that most likely the murder of Mr. Korigov is connected with his previous work in Ingushetia. In 1998, heading the local Ministry of Internal Affairs, he became the protagonist of a noisy scandal surrounding the conflict between the republican police and the prosecutor's office. Then he was arrested for using force against employees of the prosecutor's office of Ingushetia, whom Mr. Korigov ordered his subordinates not to allow into their workplaces. A criminal case was opened against the minister, but at the end of 1998 the Supreme Court of Ingushetia completely acquitted him. The Prosecutor General's Office tried several times to appeal this decision, but a year ago the Supreme Court of Russia found Mr. Korigov not guilty. True, he still had to leave the post of head of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs, and he left for Tataria. Working in Ingushetia, Mr. Korigov was considered one of the closest associates of the former president of the republic, Ruslan Aushev, and at the same time was closely involved in the release of hostages from Chechen captivity. Mr. Korigov himself said in an interview that he personally freed at least 54 people from captivity, including members of Elena Masyuk’s film crew. At the same time, the head of the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs more than once came into conflict with the federal intelligence services, who suspected that he himself could be involved in kidnappings. However, no one has been able to prove this. Investigators believe that most likely the shots fired in Kazan were an echo of those scandalous stories.
