Maigov’s pre-election staffer’s reaction to colleague’s detentionRuslan Isayev, North Caucasus – “The [assumed] abduction of one of Salambek Maigov’s pre-election staffers was not a public relations stunt because we don’t need something like this,” stated campaign manager Adlan Khasuyev to our PW correspondent.
According to Khasuyev, his deputy Ibragim Umarkhadzhiyev was only detained by security forces in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny.
Earlier that day news spread that Maigov rescued about sixty people that had been missing and that he was going to bring them to an electorate meeting in Grozny; thus relatives of the missing Chechens gathered there to await Maigov. However, not only was this information false, but Maigov had not planned on holding any meeting in the Staropromyslovsky district.
“As soon as we learned that people were gathering, Umarkhadzhiyev hurried over there to clear things up,” said Khasuyev.
The policemen who watched the crowd amass assumed that Umarkhadzhiyev had summoned them there. When it turned out that neither Maigov nor his colleagues were responsible for this assembly, he was set free. Maigov, meanwhile, was actually at a meeting of voters in Urus-Martan.
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