The brother of the ex-head of Dagestan was charged with participation in a criminal community

Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Dagestan Radzhab Abdulatipov, brother of the former head of the republic Ramazan Abdulatipov, was charged with participation in a criminal community (part 2 of article 210 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the website of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee (IC) in the region.

The department reported that a criminal case was currently under investigation, which was also initiated under articles 290 of the Criminal Code (taking a bribe by an organized group), 292 of the Criminal Code (forgery) and 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud on an especially large scale). Magomed Makhachev, the ex-head of the Republican Bureau of Medical and Social Expertise, and his other employees, whose names have not been released, are involved in the case.

Recall that Abdulatipov was arrested on September 28 for two months on suspicion of participating in a criminal community. According to investigators, it was engaged in issuing false certificates of disability. Abdulatipov and Makhachkaev were detained on 26 September.

Radzhab Abdulatipov from 2006 to 2016 headed the regional department of the Federal Migration Service, after which he became a deputy of the legislative assembly of the republic from United Russia.

Ramazan Abdulatipov announced his resignation at the end of September 2017, he has headed the region since 2013. According to him, the main reason for this decision was his age (at the time of his resignation, he was 71 years old). Instead, Dagestan was headed by the head of the United Russia faction, Vladimir Vasiliev.

After his arrival in the republic, large-scale checks of the “state of legality” took place . From January to March, high-ranking officials were arrested, including Mayor of Makhachkala Musa Musaev, deputy head of the republican customs Araz Galimov, and head of the Derbent district Magomed Dzhelilov.