19:58, 24 November 2025

The editor-in-chief of "Youth of Dagestan" has been arrested for two months.

A court in Makhachkala has remanded Magomed Magomedov, editor-in-chief of the "Youth of Dagestan" newspaper, to pretrial detention in connection with the embezzlement of budget funds from RIA Dagestan. The investigator stated in court that Magomedov is not yet a suspect in the case.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," Magomed Magomedov, editor-in-chief of the "Youth of Dagestan" newspaper, was arrested on November 21st in connection with a case of large-scale fraud. The case is related to Magomedov's work at RIA Dagestan: according to investigators, embezzlement of budget funds occurred there over several years. The money was transferred as payment for various services under contracts or as salaries to people who did not actually work for the agency.

Magomed Magomedov graduated from the Institute of Foreign Languages at Dagestan State Pedagogical University. He worked as the director of the non-profit partnership "Educational Center," head of the Dagestan State Pedagogical University press service, general director of RIA "Dagestan," and director of the Center for External Communications at Glavkosmos. On April 16, 2025, he took over the leadership of the "Youth of Dagestan" newspaper, according to the publication's Telegram channel.

The Kirovsky District Court of Makhachkala arrested Magomed Magomedov in a criminal case of fraud at the republican information agency "Dagestan." Magomedov has been remanded in custody for two months, Interfax-Yug reported today.

"The court has ordered Magomed Magomedov to be remanded in custody for two months, until January 20, 2026," the agency quotes the head of the republic's unified court press service as saying.

The court hearing in Magomedov's case took place on November 23, Shamil Khadulaev, head of the Public Monitoring Commission (PMC) of Dagestan, reported today. According to him, Magomedov is charged with embezzlement on an especially large scale, but he is not yet a suspect in the existing criminal case.

“He was in court yesterday as a witness, as the investigator stated in court that the case was initiated based on the fact, and not specifically against Magomed Magomedov. Despite this, he was remanded in custody until January 20,” Khadulaev wrote on his Telegram channel. He suggested that Magomedov's defense and he himself would present their arguments in the case during further proceedings.

In the announcement of Magomedov's arrest, which the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Dagestan released on November 22, the former general director of RIA Dagestan was directly named as a suspect in the case. Law enforcement agencies have not yet released the amount of damages caused to the agency.

Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/417480