The Supreme Court upheld the life sentence of ex-mayor of Makhachkala – RBC

Russia’s Supreme Court upheld the sentence of ex-mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov, the condemned to life imprisonment for a number of particularly serious crimes, including terrorism. This was reported by TASS in the courtroom

«The sentence of the North Caucasus District Military Court upheld, the appeal of protection complaint – without satisfaction.”, – Announced the decision of the judge. In his last word, Amirov and other persons involved in the case insisted on his innocence

nephew of former Mayor Yusup Djaparov also convicted in the case, the court sentence commuted -. From 18 to 17 years and 10 months in prison <. / p>

Amirov earlier became a defendant in a number of criminal cases. In one of them the former mayor of Makhachkala was accused of having ordered the head of the investigative department of the Soviet district of Makhachkala Arsen Hajibeyov. Another episode of the case was the terrorist attack at the shopping center “Moscow” in Kaspiysk in April 2011. Then, in the electric pole located next to the building, rocket-propelled grenade hit by a shell. In this case on the totality of the charges in August 2015 Amir was sentenced to life in prison.

In 2014, Amir was convicted on criminal charges of plotting the assassination of the head of department of the Pension Fund of Dagestan Sagid Murtazalieva. The court found that the plane, which was Murtazaliyev had to knock down the “Strela-2M” from anti-aircraft missile system. As a result, the ex-mayor convicted of preparing a terrorist attack and the organization of illegal purchase, transportation and storage of weapons and sentenced to 10 years in a penal colony. Defendants in this case was and Dzhaparov, who was sentenced to eight years imprisonment

Murtazaliyev at the end of July 2015 and became a defendant in another case -. Of complicity in the murder of the deputy chief of counter center extremism at the Interior Ministry in the Republic, in an attempt to the murder of the deputy head of administration of city district of Kizlyar and the financing of terrorism.