The editor-in-chief of the Telegram channel "Sapa" was detained in the case of bribes to the police

Alina Dzhikayeva, editor-in-chief of the Sapa news Telegram channel, was detained in a case of paying bribes to a law enforcement officer to obtain operational information. This was announced on April 14 by the press service of the Investigative Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation.

"The Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the city of Moscow has opened a criminal case against the editor-in-chief of the Telegram channel "Sapa" Alina Dzhikayeva and the operational duty officer of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the city of Makhachkala. Depending on the role of each, they are suspected of abuse of office, taking bribes and giving bribes," the agency's channel says in the MAX messenger.

According to investigators, from July 2020 to June 2025, the policeman with whom Dzhikayeva had an agreement to receive operational information from the scenes of incidents in Dagestan and North Ossetia received more than 250 thousand rubles. The suspects were taken to Moscow for interrogation, and their places of residence were searched.

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