On Wednesday, May 18, the Investigative Committee of Russia announced the arrest of two men in a case of extorting money from a minor.

According to media reports, MMA fighter Askhab Magomedov was among them.

As reported, a criminal case has been opened against the athlete, he faces up to seven years in prison.

The Moscow prosecutor's office took this case under its control.

The detention took place on the birthday of Magomedov - on May 18 he turns 23 years old.

Police officers raided the AZIMUT Hotel Olympic, where the fighter was staying with a close friend, streamer Nikolai Lebedev, better known under the pseudonym Nekoglai.

As it became known to REN TV, the story that gave rise to the initiation of the case occurred back in October last year.

The injured teenager was selling clothes and shoes on the Internet.

Magomedov's girlfriend responded to one of his ads and decided to buy luxury brand shoes.

However, after the delivery of the goods, the girl discovered that it was a fake.

She complained about what happened to the fighter, and he decided to teach the offender a lesson.

Together with a friend, Magomedov began to intimidate an underage guy.

He demanded to pay more than 500 thousand rubles.

The young man told his mother about the incident, she wrote a statement to the police.

“Two defendants born in 1989 and 1999 were detained.

Searches were carried out at their place of residence, ”said Yulia Ivanova, a representative of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow.

According to a RIA Novosti source, consideration of the issue of the arrest of Magomedov and his friend may take place on Thursday in the Meshchansky Court of Moscow. 

The streamer Nekoglai, who was in the same hotel room with him at that moment, also spoke about the details of Magomedov's detention.

“In short, I lie quietly in bed, I sleep.

Nothing portends trouble.

Suddenly, two armed men fly in: machine guns, pistols, stun grenades, grenade launchers.

Well, actually, that's exactly what happened.

They start shouting "Hands behind your back."

I just woke up myself, I don’t understand anything, I put one behind my back.

They tell me: "The second hand behind the back."

I'm sitting on my ribs.

When I woke up, I think - good morning, ”said the blogger in his Telegram channel.

He also stated that he considered what was happening a hoax.

“Askhab has a birthday today, I thought: “Wow, someone pranked on his birthday,” and this is not a prank,” Lebedev said.

Parking conflict and fatal crash

This is not the first appearance of the name of Askhab Magomedov in the chronicle of incidents.

On the eve of the media reported that the fighter staged a brawl with the guards of the parking near the Kazan railway station.

The incident occurred on April 25, but it became known about it almost a month later.

It was reported that the athlete drove into the territory around the barrier and knocked down the fence, and then unleashed a conflict with security officers.

Askhab himself denied the accusations, saying that he was late for the train and parked the car in an empty place, accidentally knocking down a plastic traffic cone.

In response to this, according to him, the parking guard called the police.

In the department, they had a conversation with him, drew up a protocol on petty hooliganism and released him.

However, after that, Magomedov had another conflict with the guards, who allegedly did not let him leave and demanded money.

“The cameras show that there were no fights.

I pushed the man away - yes.

Also, they - there were six guards, and I was one - choked me and all that.

The conflict has happened.

After that, they shook hands with the guard, and neither I nor the security officer have any claims, ”the Izvestia fighter is quoted as saying.

In addition, in early May, Magomedov got into a major accident in the center of the capital.

He was traveling as a passenger with blogger Nekoglay, and a KIA car-sharing car crashed into their car at high speed.

The driver of the second car, who was responsible for the accident, died, and the athlete and his friend ended up in the hospital.

“The head was pierced, it seems, a dislocation of the shoulder.

I feel fine, but my arm hurts a lot.

At the time of the accident, I was sitting in the front seat, the blow was strong, on the right side, but I don’t remember that.

We were just driving, I open my eyes and start to suffocate, they are lying unconscious behind, ”said Magomedov after the incident.

Another high-profile scandal was associated with a video in which Magomedov beats a colleague while serving in the army.

The fighter himself called the shown fight sparring and insisted that the second participant is his friend, with whom they continue to maintain relations.

However, the Main Military Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation became interested in the incident and organized an audit.

“While at the training ground, Magomedov staged a demonstration fight, during which he inflicted multiple blows with his hands, dressed in boxing gloves, as well as with his feet, shod in sports shoes, in the area of ​​​​the head and torso of the victim, including when the latter was on the ground and tried in every possible way cover your face from blows, ”the Investigative Committee said.

A fighter cannot boast of the same high-profile successes in sports.

In his short career in pop MMA, he only fought three fights in 2021.

One of them ended in a draw, in the other two Magomedov was defeated.

And after the appearance of the video of the beating of a colleague, the fighting promotion Punch Club, with which the athlete had previously collaborated, forbade him for life to take part in their tournaments.