The relatives of one of the protest leaders in Ingushetia are being searched

The security forces came to search the relatives of Akhmed Pogorov, one of the leaders of the protests against changing the borders of Ingushetia with Chechnya. This is reported by the telegram channel "FortangaORG".

FortangaORG clarifies that the searches began at 5 o'clock in the morning in two settlements in North Ossetia - the rural settlement of Chermen at Pogorov's uncle Aydomar Pogorov and in the village of Maiskoye at his sister's.

14:52 MBKh media writes about the third search: in Nazran at the wife of Pogorov's brother Marem Kotieva. “There were about 20 of them. They broke into the house at about six in the morning, all were wearing masks. They didn't produce a search warrant, only a certificate. And then, very quickly, ”the publication quotes a relative of Kotieva.

MBKh Media clarifies that the search at Kotiyeva's place took 40 minutes, the security forces checked all the phones and laptops, and also asked where Pogorov was, and demanded "to tell him to surrender to law enforcement agencies."

According to MBKh Media, the police did not produce a search warrant for any of the three addresses.

18:08 Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the energy companies MRSK and Gazprom came to the service station and car wash, owned by Akhmed Pogorov's brother. reports . Fortanga

According to the publication, the inspectors are "exhausted" in search of violations in the documentation or the work of the enterprise.

February 8 It became known that in Chermen (Bazorkino) the police came with a search to the Dolakov family, according to the FortangaORG telegram channel. The Dolakovs were asked when they had last seen their relative Akhmed Pogorov.

The previously confused names of the villages in which the searches took place were corrected in the news.

• Akhmed Pogorov is one of the leaders of the protests in Ingushetia, and previously served as Minister of the Interior in the region. Currently on the wanted list.
• Musa Malsagov, Akhmed Barakhoev, Malsag Uzhakhov, Akhmed Pogorov, Barakh Chemurziev, as well as Zarifa Sautiyeva are already accused under the article on organizing the use of violence dangerous to the health of security officials (part 3 of article 33, part 2 of article 318 of the Criminal Code), in the time of the action in Magas on March 26 and 27. Bagaudin Khautiev has an article on the use of violence (part 2 of article 318 of the Criminal Code).
• At the end of December 2019, was opened a new criminal case against eight leaders of the Ingush protest. The case on the organization of an extremist community was initiated against three people, Musa Malsagov, Akhmed Barakhoev and Malsag Uzhakhov, on participation in it - against five people, Barakh Chemurziyev, Zarifa Sautiyeva, Akhmed Pogorov, Bagaudin Khautiev and Ismail Nalgiev.
• In September 2018, the authorities of Ingushetia and Chechnya signed an agreement to change the border between the republics, after which protests began in Ingushetia. On March 26, 2019, about 10 thousand people came to the rally in Magas. About two thousand protesters remained on the square all night. In the morning they began to be dispersed, as a result of which clashes broke out between the security forces and the protesters .