Chechnya: police joins to searching of missing young man

In the Sunzha District of Chechnya, under unascertained circumstances, Isa Magamaev, the 24-year-old resident of the village of Assinovskaya, disappeared. In the evening of May 12, the young man left to visit his relatives, residing in the Cossack village of Sleptsovskaya of the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, and he never returned home. Police joined search of disappeared man.

According to his relatives, May 14, Isa intended to leave for Perm to his elder brother, who lived there for several years already. In the evening of May 12, he told his mother that he wanted to go to the Cossack village of Sleptsovskaya to say goodbye to his relatives and left.

"The mother of Magamaev was alarmed by the fact that her son did not call her, like he usually did if being absent for a long time, and she phoned to the mobile phone of her son. According to her, after several rings, the phone of her son turned off. He did not reach his relatives in the Cossack village of Sleptsovskaya," the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told in the Union of Chechen NGOs.

The mother of disappeared Isa Magamaev filed a complaint about disappearance of her son to the district police stations of the Sunzha District and the neighbouring Achkhoi-Martan and the Urus-Martan Districts of Chechnya. At present, the relative of the disappeared young man have no information about his fate.

Officials from the ROVD (District Interior Division) of the Sunzha District of Chechnya confirmed to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that they received the complaint filed by Lisa Magamaeva, the resident of the village of Assinovskaya, about disappearance of her 24-year-old son. The policemen stated that relevant investigations were underway.

"We consider several versions of the incident, among them we cannot exclude the version that the disappearance might have been staged by the very young man. We repeatedly faced the situations, when young men, who had been declared disappeared or kidnapped, then appeared in illegal armed formations," said a police officer.

According to his story, in any case, search of the missing young man are and will be held at full scale; however, at present, the police have no clues or information about the possible whereabouts of the disappeared young man.