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| Aslan Gagiev's accomplice convicted of participating in a series of murders | |
| 2022-11-13 | |
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The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on June 6, the Prosecutor General's Office announced that it had approved the indictment in the case of Artur Dzhioev, who, according to investigators, on behalf of Aslan Gagiev, headed one of the gangs whose members from December 2004 to February 2014 committed crimes in North Ossetia, Moscow and the Moscow region murder-for-hire and attempted murder of 17 people. The criminal case of Dzhioev was separated into a separate proceeding in connection with a pre-trial cooperation agreement with him. On February 21, 2018, Artur Dzhioev was extradited from Greece and placed under arrest in Russia. According to the security forces, he was the "right hand" of Aslan Gagiev. On January 23, 2019, Artur Dzhioev was sentenced to 17 years in a strict regime colony. He escaped life imprisonment thanks to an agreement with the investigation, but this sentence is not the last, other "facts of his criminal activity" will still be tried, the court said. The court sentenced Artur Dzhioev to 19 years in a strict regime colony, and taking into account the earlier sentence, by partial addition, he was sentenced to a final sentence of 20 years in a strict regime colony with restriction of freedom for two years, the Investigative Committee announced today. Dzhioev was found guilty of leading a gang - a structural unit of the criminal community, murders, attempted murders, kidnapping and encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer. Moscow Maxim Nikolaev and his subsequent murder in the Moscow region; attempted murder in 2010 in Moscow of Sergei Beglaryan and his murder in 2012 in Moscow; the murders in 2014 in the Moscow region of Givi Slonov and Timur Ezeev; the attempted murder of Aslan Chelokhsaev in 2006 in the city of Vladikavkaz in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania; encroachment on the life of the head of the Organized Crime Control Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania Mark Metsaev (died)," the Investigative Committee listed. The criminal case of Aslan Gagiev himself is being considered by the Southern District Military Court. "To date, 24 members of the criminal community have been sentenced to long terms of imprisonment, including life imprisonment, against 12 members of the criminal community, the criminal case is being considered by the Second Western District Military Court, seven have been put on the international wanted list, and seven have been killed as a result of internal conflicts. in the period from 2010 to 2014," the publication on the agency's website says. Recall that in 2021 the Supreme Court transferred the case of Aslan Gagiev from North Ossetia to Rostov-on-Don. On October 4 of the same year, Gagiev refused to plead guilty in court, but two days later he confessed to the contract killing of Kazbek Pagiev, Deputy Prime Minister of North Ossetia. In June 2018, Aslan Gagiev was extradited to Russia from Austria. He is accused of organizing a criminal community, three gangs, arms trafficking and six murders in 2012-2013, according to the biography of Aslan Gagiev , published on the "Caucasian Knot." | |
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