Resident of Dagestan states that he was kidnapped and beaten by strangers

Ali Aliev, born in 1984, a resident of Leninkent village in a suburb of Makhachkala, asserts that he was kidnapped and beaten by law enforcers. The incident happened in the daytime a week ago in the presence of plenty of witnesses, as he himself said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

When Mr Aliev was driving his own car from his work home, he had to stop near the Tsumadin marketplace of Makhachkala because of a traffic jam. At that moment, several persons with pistols in their hands quickly run up to the car. They pulled Aliev out, made some shots in the air, deafened him by electroshock, put a plastic bag over his head, roped his hands and threw him on the back seat of his car.

Then, one of the attackers sat to the steering wheel. Ali Aliev later told that the kidnappers took him to the forest belt in the vicinity of the Scientific Town, where he was severely beaten. Then, an interrogation began with threats that he would be immediately executed, "given out to Russians", and so on.

The attackers wanted to know whether Aliev knew a certain resident of Leninkent, announced into search as a member of illegal armed formations (IAFs). They also asked about the mosque he was visiting, who else went there and what they were talking about in the mosque.

At a certain moment, another car drove to the place of the incident. The kidnappers talked to the driver in low voices, then, all of them sat into the car and disappeared in direction to the centre of the capital of Dagestan.

Aliev managed to release his hands, took the bag from his head and saw his car several meters away. Its windows and side-view mirrors were broken, the CD player was pulled out together with wires, and bumpers were broken.

He thinks that he was kidnapped and beaten by power agents; they spoke Russian with an accent. He cannot explain this sort of "interest" to him, probably, they took him for some other person.

The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan states that they have no information about the incident.