The second case against Sagid Murtazaliev has reached court.

Sagid Murtazaliev, who previously headed the Kizlyar district and the Pension Fund of Dagestan, is accused of organizing the murder of a high-ranking police officer and an attempt on the life of a municipal deputy, as well as financing terrorism. The case, like the first one on abuse of office and fraud, will be tried in absentia, as Murtazaliev remains wanted.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" reported, in mid-December, a court in Makhachkala sentenced the former head of the Pension Fund's branch in Dagestan, Sagid Murtazaliev, in absentia to nine years in prison on charges of abuse of office and fraud.

The Southern District Military Court received a criminal case against Olympic freestyle wrestling champion Sagid Murtazaliev, the former head of the Kizlyar District and the Pension Fund of Dagestan. He is accused of organizing the murder of a high-ranking police officer and an assassination attempt on a municipal deputy, as well as financing terrorism, Kommersant reported.

The case materials indicate that in early 2009, an illegal armed group was created in the Kizlyar District of Dagestan. The goal of its members was to separate several republics from Russia in order to establish an Islamic state in the North Caucasus. Sagid Murtazaliev, who at the time held the post of head of the Kizlyar district, according to investigators, wanted to collaborate with terrorists to achieve his personal goals and in September 2009 transferred 2.7 million rubles to one of the group's members.

In 2010, Sagid Murtazaliev, already the head of the republic's Pension Fund, promised to donate 100 thousand dollars (3 million rubles at the then exchange rate) to the needs of the illegal group if its members killed Shevket Kudzhaev, deputy head of the Center for Combating Extremism at the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Dagestan, and Vasily Naumochkin, acting deputy head of Kizlyar.

Sagid Murtazaliev recruited his acquaintance Omar Asadulaev and Andrei Vinogradov, head of the Kizlyar district municipality, to participate, who, after achieving The perpetrators of the murder plots transferred funds to terrorists.

The Rostov-on-Don court will hear the criminal case of 51-year-old Sagid Murtazaliev in absentia, as the defendant fled the country in 2015 and is on the international wanted list. He is accused of attempting to murder a law enforcement officer, organizing an attempted murder, and financing terrorism. A preliminary hearing in Sagid Murtazaliev's case is scheduled for January 23. It will be held behind closed doors, the publication clarifies.