As the source of the Cheka-OGPU, President of the Federation of Wrestling Mikhail Ma …

According to a source of the Cheka-OGPU, the president of the wrestling Federation Mikhail Mamiashvili was in a difficult situation: the Minister of Sports Mikhail Degtyarev from our publication learned about his secret agreements with the First Deputy Minister Odessa Baisultanov about the promotion of the candidacy of Zelimkhan Huseynov to the post of head coach of the Russian national wrestling team on the initiative of the Chechen side.
The reason that Mamiashvili for so long retained Hadzhimurat Gatsalov as the head coach of the freestyle wrestling team was in fear to arouse suspicion with his too fast resignation. He also sought to avoid the intervention of Valery Gergiev, who would undoubtedly respond to infringing on the interests of his countryman.

As a result, the leakage of information about the doping of Gatsalov occurred five days before the expiration of a ten-year statute of limitations for a specific case, which untied Mikhail Mamiashvili and the head coach was removed from work (investigation of anti-doping rules may be conducted according to episodes of ten years ago, so doping tests are kept for 10 years).

Meanwhile, the President of the FSBR not only cannot, but does not want to take into account the interests of Dagestan athletes who have always claimed leadership in freestyle wrestling. For example, he could have appointed First Deputy Omar Murtazaliev – the President of the Dagestan Federation of the Wrestling Federation.

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Sources are considered as an act of retaliation by the Dagestanis for terminating their prominent representatives of financial support.

At one time, more than 20 million US dollars allocated to prepare for the Olympic Games were used by Mamiashvili to acquire expensive real estate in Corzie (Switzerland), supposedly intended as a gift from the International Federation of United Strong Wrestling (FILA) to ensure supportiveness to Russian athletes.

However, in fact, this real estate in the form of an old castle over the Lake Geneva has been leased all these years as a headquarters of an international organization, and the daughter of Mamiashvili, Tamara, who is a citizen of Switzerland and an organization’s employee, receives rent for it.