Dzhabrailov's relatives have secured the arrest of a fourth security official

The fourth suspect in the case of the death at the police station in Makhachkala, Akhmed Dzhabrailov, was detained thanks to the persistence of his relatives, who demanded the arrest of the security officer. They believe that the investigation is trying to hush up the case.

As "Caucasian Knot" wrote, in the case of the death of a participant in the hostilities in Ukraine Akhmed Dzhabrailov in 2024, the commander of the PPS regiment department and two officers were arrested. They are suspected of abuse of power, said Shamil Khadulaev, Chairman of the Dagestan Public Monitoring Commission, naming the suspects. In June, the Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala extended the arrest of the security officials accused in the case of the death of Akhmed Dzhabrailov at a police station. The defense claims the innocence of the accused, said Shamil Khadulaev, Chairman of the Dagestan Public Monitoring Commission.

The arrest of the fourth suspect in the case of the death of SVO veteran Akhmed Dzhabrailov in the police department in Makhachkala became possible thanks to the activity of Dzhabrailov's relatives, the head of the Public Monitoring Commission of Dagestan Shamil Khadulaev told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. "They contacted the prosecutor's office, the Investigative Committee expressed bewilderment and indignation - why were only three of the six people who participated in the murder arrested? And thanks to their activity, the fourth suspect was arrested,” he said.

The fact that relatives had to “raise a fuss” to achieve the arrest of the fourth suspect was confirmed by Dzhabrailov’s sister Madina
Dzhabrailova. “Last year, a video appeared on the Internet in which my brother was beaten in the interrogation room – and the three who were there were detained. Recently, we got our hands on another video – of Akhmed being beaten at the checkpoint. We contacted the Investigative Committee, but they initially did not want to detain them, saying that it was not clear who was doing this, and only after we raised a fuss, one person was arrested, but the second one has been left with the status of a witness," she said.

Dzhabrailova noted that she and her relatives have the impression that the Investigative Committee is trying to hush up the case. "All these videos that came to us - they were with the Investigative Committee a year ago, but they did nothing about them until these videos came to us and we raised a fuss, contacting all the addresses. We are not receiving any information from the investigation," she emphasized. In addition, according to her, the investigation does not want to hold accountable either the police officers on duty, who should have stopped the beating, or the doctors who arrived to see the beaten Dzhabrailov, who did not provide assistance to him for 7-8 minutes, which may have prevented him from being saved.

Madina Dzhabrailova also emphasized that they are trying to portray Dzhabrailov’s relatives as speaking out against the state and the police as a whole. "But we are not against the state, we are against the werewolves in uniform who killed my brother," she concluded.

Touching on the topic of "Dzhabrailov's criminal activity" raised by the defense, she noted that her brother did have a criminal record, but this does not mean that he was some kind of criminal element, and even more so - that because of this the suspects had the right to kill him.

The lawyer for the suspects in Dzhabrailov's murder, Eldar Mollaev  specified what the defense of the suspects had in mind when speaking about Dzhabrailov's "criminal activity." "When the police were called to detain Dzhabrailov for inappropriate behavior, the district police officer injured his arm during the arrest - it was a moderate injury," the lawyer noted.

Akhmed Dzhabrailov, a member of the Akhmat special forces, who was detained for disturbing public order, died on July 9, 2024, in the Sovetsky District Police Department. On July 27, Shamil Khadulaev published a video from surveillance cameras in the police department and stated that security forces were "wittingly or unwittingly" involved in Dzhabrailov's death. In January 2023, Makhachkala resident Kurban Dalgatov died after being detained in the same police department; 13 police officers are accused of involvement in his death.

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