Brother of North Ossetia leader committed suicide. Media called him a participant in a traffic accident with four fatalities

Kazbek Bitarov, a businessman and brother of the head of North Ossetia Vyacheslav Bitarov, committed suicide. This was reported by sources of Yug. MBKh Media , Kavkaz.Realii and the 360 ​​channel. Baza also writes about this.

The press secretary of the head of North Ossetia, Fatima Sabanova, confirmed to Podyom that Kazbek Bitarov is dead. "The fact that he is not here is true, I can confirm that. But how this happened, I do not know, I cannot give you such information."

According to Kavkaz.Realii sources, Kazbek Bitarov was deeply upset by the fatal accident in which he was involved.

In December 2020, 67-year-old Bitarov was involved in a traffic accident in Kabardino-Balkaria, which resulted in the death of a family - a mother, father and two children. Bitarov himself was not seriously injured, Kavkaz.Realii wrote , citing a source in law enforcement agencies.

The source of the publication claimed that preliminary data indicated Bitarov's guilt in the accident, but they were allegedly trying to make the driver of the second car guilty. The Kabardino-Balkarian Ministry of Internal Affairs then stated that they had no information about whether a criminal case had been opened.

According to Baza and REN TV , a criminal case was opened. Bitarov was a suspect in it, but was not detained, Baza writes.

• At the end of December, members of the family of Kommersant journalist Zaur Farniev publicly reprimanded him for his publication about the accident involving Kazbek Bitarov. He was accused of "an information attack on the current government."