"Kommersant": Wahhabites could murder STRC "Dagestan" chairman

By one of the versions of the murder of Gaji Abashilov, Chairman of the State Television and Radio Company (STRC) "Dagestan", the crime was committed with the aim to weaken the influence of Dagestan President Mukhu Aliev. The inspectors in charge of the case see this version to be the most promising.

In the opinion of the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), Abashilov could be killed as one of the main ideologists in Aliev's team. The version of a personal revenge on the STRC Chairman is also considered.

The "Kommersant" newspaper reports that the so-called "Wahhabite" version, as the paper was explained at the Investigatory Department for Dagestan of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, whose employees are investigating the murder, is considered among the main ones, but not the basic one yet.

The point is that several years ago, when the Chairman of the STRC "Dagestan" was the editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine "Molodezh Dagestana" (Youth of Dagestan), he was announced by Wahhabites to be their enemy and put on the so-called "execution list" of the officials and politicians subject to liquidation.

However, subsequently, the law enforcement bodies liquidated practically all the compilers of this "murder list", and recently in Dagestan, resonant terror acts and murders were committed, as a rule, as Wahhabites' vengeance on the employees of law enforcement bodies. However, Abashilov had made nothing to take vengeance on, the newspaper remarks.