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| Verdict in case of torture in Makhachkala detention center upheld |
| 2023-11-16 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] The Supreme Court of Dagestan upheld the verdict in the case of torture and extortion against the former head of the Makhachkala pre-trial detention center Daud Davydov and his subordinates. As the " Caucasian Knot " wrote, on February 7, the court sentenced the former head of the Makhachkala pre-trial detention center Daud Davydov to eight years in prison, two of his subordinates received 5.5 years in prison in the case of beating prisoners and extorting money and property for 9 million rubles. The security forces did not admit guilt in torture and extortion. In the spring of 2022, pretrial detention center inspector Magomed Saliev, whom the court found guilty of exceeding his authority and receiving a large bribe, received 3.5 years in prison. Saliev fully admitted his guilt and entered into a pre-trial agreement with the investigation. Several episodes in which he appeared were also incriminated against Davydov and his subordinates. Dagestani journalists and a lawyer called the sentence against Davydov and his subordinates unique . According to the prosecution, from December 2015 to June 2019, security forces repeatedly used physical violence against the arrested person and forced him to re-register ownership of a land plot, buildings and an apartment, with a total value of more than 5 million rubles. They also received bribes totaling 150 thousand rubles from the wife of the arrested person, and 300 thousand rubles from a local resident for improving the conditions of detention of his father, and in February 2019, in collusion with the convicted person, they stole 3.2 million rubles from the arrested person, they found out investigators. The Supreme Court of Dagestan upheld the sentence of the former head of pre-trial detention center No. 1 of Makhachkala Daud Davydov and his subordinates, sentenced to several years in prison in the case of abuse of power with the use of violence and complicity in extortion, the head of the press service of the Supreme Court of Dagestan Zarema Mamaeva said today. “The Supreme Court of the Republic came to the conclusion that the case was considered without violations of the norms of criminal procedure law and there were no grounds for canceling the court decision. By the appeal ruling dated November 13, 2023, the appealed sentence remained unchanged,” TASS quoted her as saying. The appeal has been considered in the Supreme Court of Dagestan since July 25, six hearings took place. In this case, along with Daud Davydov, Makhach Vakilov, Abdulla Mirzaev and Rustam Rustamov were involved, it is indicated in the dala card on the court’s website. |
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