Mayor of Izberbash in Dagestan detained on suspicion of accepting a bribe

Magomed Isakov, the mayor of Izberbash, has been detained in Dagestan. A criminal case has been opened against him under Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (accepting a bribe on an especially large scale).

According to investigators, in 2019, Isakov received a bribe of 3.9 million rubles from a developer for failure to take actions related to the cancellation of a permit for the construction of a house in Izberbash. Law enforcement officers conducted searches in the city administration and in Isakov's house.

In April of this year, the head of the land and property relations department of the Izberbash administration, Abdulmejid Aliyev, and lawyer Akhmed Gadzhikurbanov were detained.

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