A rather remarkable story happened to the aggressor’s punisher, Magomed Magomedov, a native of the Dagestani village of Tinit, who was arrested in late February by Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on charges of “bribery and embezzlement on an especially large scale.”
Magomedov “became famous” in 2021, as the then “senior investigator” in the criminal “department for the investigation of particularly important cases of the main investigative department of the investigative committee” of the occupiers in Crimea.
Magomedov was then subject to EU sanctions and accused in Ukraine of violating the laws and customs of war, as he was the perpetrator of the in absentia repressions against Mustafa Dzhemilev and Refat Chubarov.
Among other things, this “investigator” brought “charges” against Chubarov, the head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, in the “February 26 case,” related to the 2014 protests against the beginning of the occupation of Crimea.
In 2021, Chubarov called Magomedov “one of the most ardent Russian punishers in temporarily occupied Crimea.” There is little information about Magomedov in open sources; it is known that he held his “Crimean position” since at least 2018, and that he “resigned from the Investigative committee” no later than April 2025.
Since 2021, Magomedov has also attempted to pursue an “academic career” in graduate school at the Moscow Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the aggressor’s government, but apparently was unsuccessful.
Magomedov then obtained a “lawyer’s license” from the occupiers’ illegal “Kherson regional bar association” and, as recently as December of last year, appeared in the illegal “Simferopol district court” as a “representative of the victim” in some “criminal case”.
The details of Magomedov’s current charges are murky, but they relate specifically to the period of his “investigative work,” during which he allegedly “attempted to embezzle confiscated funds.” Whether this process is a “cover-up” in the classic “I knew too much” style, will be revealed by future events.
