MAKHACHKALA. Oct 25 (Interfax) - The Dagestani Supreme Court has sentenced former police officer Magomed Magomedov to 13 years in a maximum-security penitentiary for helping militants kill his colleague, a court spokesman told Interfax.

"Magomed Magomedov, a former criminal investigator of the Kizlyar city police department and senior lieutenant, did nothing to prevent the murder of Police Lt. Col. Shevket Kudzhayev, an officer of the Dagestani Interior Ministry