Police officers suspected of forming gang to go on trial in Dagestan

Prosecutors of Dagestan have pressed charges against Gaziyev Hamaludinov (aged 37), Mahmoud Khaybulayev (25), Magomed Pirayev (27), Askhabali Zairbekov (48) and Abdulmuslim Magomedov (41) for banditry, robbery, hostage-taking, car-jacking, gun-stealing, deliberate property damage and gun trafficking, RIA Dagestan reports.

The suspects were police officers using their service car for crime. They used uniforms of traffic police and camouflage with masks.