The Fifth Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction overturned the decision to release from punishment Ministry of Internal Affairs pensionerTagira Velagaev in the case of the murder of his wife (Article 107 of the Criminal Code). This is reported by the human rights project «Axioma».
The case will be considered by the Supreme Court of Dagestan for the third time already.
A body in a carpet. In Dagestan, a former policeman confessed to the murder of his wife, but remained at large
In November 2021, the Sovetsky District Court of Makhachkala sentenced Velagaev to two years restrictions of freedom, however, in the spring of 2022, the Supreme Court of Dagestan released him from punishment due to expiration of the statute of limitations for criminal liability.
In February 2019, 46-year-old Velagayev killed his 48-year-old ex-wife, Umuzhat Huseynova. The former policeman inflicted 4 blows on her head with the handle of a traumatic pistol and strangled her, and then wrapped the corpse in a carpet.
Velagaev claimed that on the day of the murder of Huseynov, she began to insult his daughters from another marriage and wished them to become «prostitutes» .
According to the son of the murdered woman, Velagaev often “came to her drunk, broke the front doors.”
Initially, the criminal case was investigated under the article on murder (Article 105 of the Criminal Code), but then the investigation reclassified it to a milder one — about a murder committed in a state of passion (Article 107 of the Criminal Code).
Huseinova's body was discovered 12 days after the neighbors felt an unpleasant smell in the entrance. Velagaev wrote a confession only after the arrest.
In 2020, the Sovetsky District Court of Makhachkala sentenced Velagaev to the same two years of restriction of freedom, but the Supreme Court of Dagestan overturned the decision and sent the case back for a new trial. The lawyer of the injured party, Arsen Shabanov, then insisted on presenting the former policeman with a more serious article of the Criminal Code.