
MOSCOW, July 7 The ex-head of the Sergokalinsky district of Dagestan, Magomed Omarov, managed to visit home after being arrested for petty hooliganism, but the very next night he was detained in his house on suspicion money laundering, a source familiar with the situation said.
On Saturday, a source in the security forces said that Omarov was detained on suspicion of money laundering on a particularly large scale. On Friday, the former official was released from arrest, in which he was held for 10 days after the terrorist attack in Makhachkala and Derbent. According to a source in the security forces, one of those liquidated during the counter-terrorism operation was Omarov’s 31-year-old son Osman. 
“He was at home, but then he was detained at night,” the agency’s source said.
In Derbent and Makhachkala on June 23, armed militants attacked two Orthodox churches, two synagogues and a traffic police post. According to the latest data, 22 people were killed and more than 40 injured as a result of the attack. Security forces killed five militants involved in these terrorist attacks, their identities have been established.
Against the backdrop of reports about the participation of Magomed Omarov’s relatives in terrorist attacks in Dagestan, the presidium of the regional political council of United Russia decided to expel him from the party for “actions discrediting United Russia.” Then the head of the region, Sergei Melikov, announced that Omarov had been relieved of his post.

