Ingushetia: Senior Official Assassinated Fighting Corruption

As part of his work, Amerkhanov had ordered inspections that led to the discovery of theft from the regional budget, he said.

Ingushetia’s construction minister was shot dead by two masked gunmen who burst into his office in the republic’s capital on Wednesday morning in a brazen attack, investigators said.

The gunmen fled in a ... car with North Ossetian license plates.

“A group of skilled experts flew to Ingushetia from the office of the Moscow Investigative Committee to assist in the investigation,” the Investigative Committee statement said.

The Ingush capital, Magas, is located four kilometers from the region’s main city of Nazran, where Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov was badly injured in a car bombing in June.

The slain construction minister was a “very close and trusted official” of Yevkurov, said Kaloi Akhilgov, a spokesman for the Ingush president, who is recovering in a Moscow region rehabilitation center.

Several senior officials have been killed in recent months after a period of relative calm following Yevkurov’s appointment as president, including former Ingush Interior Minister and government official Bashir Aushev, who was shot dead on June 13, and Ingush Supreme Court deputy chief justice Aza Gazgireyeva, who was killed on June 10.