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[KavkazUzel] The case of six people accused of involvement in a terrorist community in a Kalmyk colony has been submitted to court, the Investigative Committee said.
As the "Caucasian Knot" has reported, in May 2021, lawyers reported that at least 40 people were already being tried in the case of organizing a terrorist community in the Kalmyk colony No. 2, the accused were united in groups, and then their cases were considered in court.
By November 2021, at least seven people had been convicted - Mikhail Zhigunov, Said Suleimanov, Alexander Travinov, Savely Ochirov, Alexander Sagdanov, Robert Emirgamzaev and Soslan Beev. Soslan Beev, a native of Kabardino-Balkaria, appealed the verdict, but the court upheld it .
According to investigators, no later than 2013, a native of Dagestan, Shakhban Gasanov, who was serving a sentence for illegal arms trafficking in IK-2, created a terrorist organization there, which subsequently included more than 100 prisoners. Gasanov himself was killed in 2015 in Khasavyurt. The case of a terrorist network in a Kalmyk colony is similar to a PR campaign by the security forces, since in the colonies the creation of any groups is possible only with the patronage of such activities by the Federal Penitentiary Service, analysts pointed out in April 2020.
The case of Rustam Shebzukhov, Alim Tkhagalegov, Omar Omarov, Marat Tulepov, Sakit Jamalov and Abdulkhan Temurkaev, charged under Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in a terrorist community), has been submitted to court, the press service of the Investigative Committee reported today.
According to investigators, from mid-2013 to December 16, 2019, more than 100 convicts, including Shebzukhov, Tkhagalegov, Omarov, Tulepov, Dzhamalov and Temurkaev, were part of the community on the territory of the colony.
"During the period of serving their sentences in PKU IK-2 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Republic of Kalmykia, they were active participants in the terrorist community, obeyed the general principles and norms of behavior formed as a result of a false, fictitious idea of religious superiority over other members of civil society, studied Arabic, underwent ideological training, attended lectures on literature recognized by the courts as extremist materials," the message posted on the TFR website says.
The case was investigated by the main investigation department of the TFR for the North Caucasus Federal District in cooperation with the FSB, the FSB for Kalmykia and Karachay-Cherkessia, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Penitentiary Service, the publication notes.
"Earlier, 10 persons were sentenced to long terms of punishment for participation in a terrorist community on the territory of PKU IK-2 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Republic of Kalmykia, and criminal cases are currently pending in court against another 22 defendants," the agency said.
Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provides for five to 10 years in prison.
Recall that in December 2019, the Sledkom reported 22 suspects in the case of creating a terrorist community in colony No. 2. Five of them were detained in Dagestan, Kuban and Volgograd region. Three more in 2014-2015, after being released from prison, were killed in Dagestan during armed resistance. The rest continue to serve their sentences, including in IK No. 2 in Kalmykia.
Shahban Hasanov was killed on March 31, 2015 during a special operation in Khasavyurt. According to the National Anti-Terrorist Committee, Gasanov was the leader of the "Kizlyar" group of militants who swore allegiance to the "Islamic State"*. One of the information resources that supported the militants of the Emarat Kavkaz
| ....alternately Imarat Kavkaz, we’ve been calling it the Caucasus Emirate. Originally an Al Qaeda franchise, they subsequently swore allegiance to ISIS under the name Caucasus Province (Vilayat Kavkaz), though nobody bothers to remember the name change. Russia has been hunting down Caucasian Emirate jihadis for three decades, no doubt a factor in thousands of members and their families making hijra to the rebellion in Syria — where they’re known for their nastiness in a region where nastiness is the norm — some to Al Nusra, some to ISIS, while others were adopted by Turkey (that whole Turkic peoples thingy). Oddly enough, when the Tsarnaev brothers blew up the Boston Marathon, the rump home office denied responsibility as they were not making war on America (“Please don’t hurt us!”)... |
terrorist organization banned by the court in Russia claimed that Gasanov was indeed a member of the armed underground.
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