Dagestan Stiffens Sentences and Advances Fraud Case as Six Held Over Alleged Police Attack Plot

Overview

• Investigators said six Makhachkala residents formed a terrorist community no later than July 2025 and conspired to attack police officers.
• Authorities reported the suspected plot was thwarted because the detainees were apprehended in time by law enforcement.
• Prosecutors approved an indictment against a local woman accused of stealing more than 32.5 million rubles through a maternal‑capital scheme.
• The maternal‑capital case, alleging use of fictitious birth records and false submissions to the Pension Fund from December 2019 to May 2022, was sent to the Leninsky District Court of Makhachkala.
• An appellate court increased prison terms to six to 17 years for seven people tied to a 2013–2014 microfinance fund embezzlement exceeding 170 million rubles, citing the original verdict’s undue leniency and the crime’s public danger.