Police investigating murder of Dagestan?s deputy mufti Akhmed-khadzhi Tagayev
18:34, 26 May 2009
MAKHACHKALA. May 26. KAZINFORM A criminal case was instituted over the murder of Dagestan?s Deputy Mufti Akhmed-khadzhi Tagayev here on Tuesday. The criminal proceedings were instituted under two articles of the Criminal Code (murder and the illegal circulation of weapons and ammunition), Kazinform refers to ITAR-TASS.
The murder was committed on Monday evening ?in the residential area of Uchkhoz on the territory of the countryside settlement,? the press service of the Dagestani Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass on Tuesday. ?Tagayev was coming up to his house in Obshchestvennaya Street at about 22.20 Moscow time on Monday. Meanwhile, the killer jumped out of a silvery VAZ-21099 car parked nearby and presumably made one shot from a PM pistol in the back of the head of Tagayev,? the press service said.
Akhmed Tagayev, 61, died instantly. The killer escaped from the scene.
The investigators consider Tagayev?s professional activities as the main version of the murder. Tagayev was a zealous opponent of Islamic extremism. He has repeatedly written about these problems in his articles in local media outlets and in the Internet, Kazinform cites ITAR-TASS. See www.itar-tass.com for full version.