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| Resident of Chechnya receives two years for aiding a militant | |
| 2023-11-26 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] The Supreme Court of Chechnya approved a year in prison and a year in a colony for Visite Tapaev, who suffers from epilepsy, who, according to investigators, helped a militant in Syria
The Akhmatovsky Court of Grozny found 25-year-old Visita Tapaev guilty of aiding a militant due to correspondence in the messenger and the purchase of a SIM card, the Supreme Court of Chechnya confirmed the sentence to Tapaev, the publication "Kavkaz.Realii" reported today. According to the investigation and the court, in 2020, Tapaev began corresponding with a militant fighting as part of an illegal armed group, knowing that he was wanted. Tapaev helped his interlocutor register an electronic wallet - he bought a SIM card with which he registered the wallet, and, having sent his data to his interlocutor, threw away the SIM card, the decision of the Akhmatovsky District Court says. In court, Tapaev admitted guilt, but refused to testify. When the court read out the testimony he gave during the investigation, he confirmed it, adding that he suffered from epilepsy. The defendant's mother and brother told the court that he adheres to traditional Islam and regularly attends the mosque. The court considered the contribution to the detection and investigation of the crime, remorse for the crime, the positive characteristics and state of health of Tapaev himself and his mother as mitigating factors and sentenced him to two years in a maximum security colony with serving the first year in prison and a year of restriction of freedom, it follows from the case file on the website court The court's decision was challenged by the prosecutor. The Supreme Court of Chechnya left Tapaev's sentence unchanged. | |
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