But the criminal sway in the region is not limited to kidnapping and the use of unregistered weapons. Whole herds of cattle are regularly stolen from the Kurskaya District of Stavropol Territory and border regions of Daghestan. The tracks lead to Chechnya. Shepherd Sagynbek Saitov from the village of Novokrestyanovka in Daghestan's Kizlyar Region, helped the militia find a stolen herd of cattle half a mile away from the Chechen border. They killed him in front of his wife and five children, thus depriving them of a means of subsistence.
Sensational murders are regularly committed in the North Caucasus.
This is a result of the large illegal arsenals of unregistered weapons. Anyone who dares to resist the bandit sway, from shepherds to deputies, are mercilessly killed. The bandits attack militiamen, businessmen and investigators from the prosecutor's offices, blow up city prosecutor's offices and district council buildings, and launch grenades at republican FSB departments. They damage oil pipelines, diverting the oil to Chechnya, where it is used to make low-quality gasoline at homemade refineries. That gasoline is exported to Russia and sold to naive drivers in Stavropol Territory.