19:29, 30 June 2026

The case of mass poisoning in Dagestan has reached the court.

The Karabudakhkent District Court will hear the case of the former director of the municipal enterprise "Karvodokanal", accused of poisoning more than 100 local residents with poor-quality drinking water.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot", in mid-April, the director of the Karabudakhkent water utility in Dagestan was detained on suspicion of providing water supply services of inadequate quality, as a result of which dozens of people sought medical help with symptoms of acute intestinal infection.

From April 2 to 4, 21 patients with symptoms of intestinal infection were hospitalized in the Karabudakhkent District Hospital, including 14 children. On April 4, the number of hospitalized increased to 25. The investigation named the probable cause of poisoning as the consumption of drinking water. On April 4, Rospotrebnadzor declared an emergency immunization in Dagestan due to flooding and the risk of an outbreak of viral hepatitis A. On April 8, 27 children and eight adults with symptoms of intestinal infection were hospitalized in the Karabudakhkent hospital. Earlier, on March 28, the agency urged residents of Dagestan to consume only boiled or bottled water and not to use tap water without boiling.

According to the investigation, the head of the organization did not properly monitor the quality of drinking water and concealed data on emergency situations in the water supply systems and on unsatisfactory test results of drinking water samples. He also did not organize work to eliminate existing violations, including failing to stop the supply of poor-quality drinking water, the Dagestan prosecutor's office reported today on its Telegram channel.

As a result, in April 2026, more than 100 residents of the Karabudakhkent district, including children, were admitted to the hospital with acute bacterial infectious diseases caused by E. coli due to poor-quality drinking water.

The director of the enterprise is accused of providing services that do not meet health safety requirements . "The criminal case has been sent to the Karabudakhkent District Court for substantive consideration," the supervisory agency's message states.

It should be noted that at the end of April, the charges against the former head of the Karabudakhkent district of Dagestan, Mahmoud Amiraliyev, for fraud and abuse of power were supplemented with charges of multimillion-dollar bribes. According to the investigation, the official offered a representative of a commercial organization to give him a bribe of 20% of the amount of the municipal contract for assistance in concluding it for the construction of a water supply system for the district's settlements.

In the North Caucasus, floods caused by heavy rains began in late March, becoming one of the most destructive in recent years, according to a report from "Caucasian Knot" "Spring Flooding in the North Caucasus-2026". Materials on flooding in the republics of the North Caucasus Federal District in the spring of 2026 have been collected by "Caucasian Knot" on the thematic page "Flooding in the North Caucasus".

Translated automatically via OpenAI from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/424537