Prosecutor Asks Eight Years in Prison for Former Prime Minister of Dagestan

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Mukhtar Medzhidov, the former Prime Minister of Dagestan, was charged with embezzling EUR 1.6 million from the Ministry of Defense. The state prosecutor asked for eight years in prison. 

According to the investigation, in 2012, when Mukhtar Medzhidov held the post of Vice-premier of the Dagestan government, he lobbied for interesting companies belonging to him, IRZ and NPK "Russian Radio Electronics." He convinced the Ministry of Defense employees that the radio factory in Izberbash had the necessary capacity to produce and deliver the landing radar system.

As a result, the military department transferred EUR 1.6 million to the supplier as an advance; part of this money went to the checking account of "Russian radio electronics" under a fictitious contract for the supply of electrical equipment. However, the Ministry of Defense did not receive the ordered sets.

The former director of Pleshakov's Izberbash Radio Plant, Firyaz Farmanov, is also a defendant in the criminal case being considered by the Russian Verkhovna Rada (Supreme Council). According to "Kommersant," Farman was sentenced to seven years in prison as a result of the state's prosecution.

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