MOSCOW, October 9 (RAPSI) – Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court has sentenced Colonel Magomed Khizriyev, ex-head of the Dagestan Republic’s Interior Ministry operative department, to 9 years in a high-security prison in a $6 million bribery case, RAPSI has learnt from the court’s press service.

He was found guilty of attempted bribery. The defendant He denied wrongdoing, called his arrest a provocation, claimed that he does not know other defendants and that he did not have money to give such a large bribe. 

According to investigators, in 2017, Khizriyev transferred his accomplices $2 million as part of a bribe. The alleged accomplices said that money was designated for their help with his appointment for a higher position in one of the Interior Ministry’s regional departments. Overall, the value of the bribe reached $6 million.

He was apprehended with the assistance of the Federal Security Service’s (FSB) officers in June 2018.