Kirovsky District Court of Saratov considered the case on the illegal transfer of the city property of Makhachkala to the property of the relatives of the ex-mayor Saida Amirova and people under his control. Writes about this “Kommersant”.
It was decided to return to the state a property complex worth more than five billion rubles. It is specified that 356 real estate objects, including 173 land plots, should be returned to state ownership.
The list of defendants includes 25 individuals and nine companies, the key ones being Said Amirov and Ali Abdulbekov. The investigation was able to prove that the actions of these officials “led to the loss of utility networks and related infrastructure by the city.”
“Kommersant”, 09/19/2022, “Said Amirov’s city card was taken away”: Abdulbekov served in 2007-2014 as chairman of the city committee for property management. […] The shares of the Makhachkala Gorvodokanal, Makhachkala City Electric Networks and Makhachkala Teploenergo companies, which were municipal enterprises before the start of the fraud, turned out to be in the possession of commercial companies affiliated with the family of Said Amirov – Makhachkala Seaside, Kommunservis, Three I – and in individuals.
To start the process of transferring the municipal economy into private hands, Messrs. Amirov and Abdulbekov, according to the supervision, used a backdated false resolution No. 2938 of the head of Makhachkala in 2007 on the privatization of municipal enterprises. […] Using a fictitious document, Mr. Abdulbekov issued orders for the privatization of Vodokanal, Teploenergo, and the city’s power grids. 251 real estate objects were transferred from the municipal property to the JSC Vodokanal transformed into JSC Vodokanal: land plots, buildings, structures and facilities. Makhachkalateploenergo received more than a hundred such facilities, and a dozen and a half went to the joint-stock company Gorelektroseti. […]
Later, new illegal auctions were held within a few years, and the city was completely withdrawn from the number of shareholders, and the money received for additional shares did not go to the local budget, but settled in new companies. Many properties that became the property of the three joint-stock companies were eventually alienated in favor of individuals and legal entities. Thus, as a result of the “illegal activities” of the defendants, the supervision established, property worth more than 5 billion rubles, “which is of vital importance for the functioning and development of Makhachkala,” “dropped out” of municipal property. — Inset K.ru
In July 2014, the North Caucasian District Military Court found Amirov guilty of preparing a terrorist attack. According to the prosecution, he planned bring down with the help of the Strela-2M portable anti-aircraft complex, a passenger plane, which was supposed to fly a deputy of the People’s Assembly of Dagestan and the manager of the Pension Fund of the Republic, Sagid Murtazaliev, who was considered a political rival of Amirov.
Amirov, who has served as mayor of Makhachkala since 1998, was arrested as part of a special operation in 2013. To detain him, several streets of Makhachkala were blocked by armored personnel carriers and special forces. The former mayor was taken out of the city by helicopter.
Having lost the ability to walk after the assassination attempt in 1993, Amirov is serving a term in the Black Dolphin special regime colony in Sol-Iletsk.