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.