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[KavkazUzel] Rustam Buluev, Ruslan Namatov and Artur Ushaev, former employees of the antiterrorist center of Chechnya, were sentenced to long terms on charges of committing a terrorist act in the village of Znamenskoye in 2005.
The "Caucasian Knot" wrote that in 2021, the case of three residents of Chechnya, accused in the case of a terrorist attack in the village of Znamenskoye, was sent to court. The defendants were charged with banditry, terrorism, encroachment on the lives of security officials, murder and attempted murder of two or more persons committed in a generally dangerous way by an organized group, illegal storage and transportation of explosive devices, and two of them were also charged with kidnapping.
On July 19, 2005, in the village of Znamenskoye, Nadterechny district of Chechnya, 15 people were killed, including a woman and two young boys, when a UAZ car filled with explosives was blown up. Another 24 local residents were injured, the security forces said at the time.
Ali Agamerzoev and Aslambek Vitrigov, natives of the Vedeno district, were detained on suspicion of involvement in the incident. Ayub Tuntuev, 29, who was later detained, was accused of organizing the attack. According to Tuntuev's testimony, the attack was ordered by Shamil Basaev ,
| ...also in our archives as Shamil Basayev, more formally Shamil Salmanovich Basayev, also known by his kunya "Abu Idris" and Emir Abdullah Shamil Abu-Idris (1965-2006). Chechen warlord in the post-Soviet Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, which after his death became the Al Qaeda-linked Caucasus Emirate. In 2015 most of the hard boys changed their allegiance to the local Islamic State affiliate, Vilayat Kavkaz, whereupon a majority chose to escape the Russians hunting them by making hijra to the caliphate in Syria. Some of his projects were the 2004 Beslan school siege and the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis. In 2003, the US State Department designated three Chechen groups affiliated with Shamil Basaev as terrorists, accusing them of receiving millions of dollars from Al Qaeda... |
who promised to pay the perpetrators of this action a thousand dollars, the Chechen Interior Ministry said in August 2005.
The Southern District Military Court sentenced three former employees of the anti-terrorist center of Chechnya, Rustam Buluev, Ruslan Namatov and Artur Ushaev, accused of a terrorist attack in the village of Znamenskoye (Chechnya) in July 2005.
"Taking into account the position of the public prosecutor on the guilt of the defendants, the court sentenced them to imprisonment for a term of 21 to 24 years to be served in a strict regime colony," the press service of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office for the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts reported today.
The court sentenced Buluev to 21 years in prison, Namatov to 23 years in prison, and Ushaev to 24 years in prison. They will serve their sentence in a strict regime penal colony. Earlier, other participants Agamerzaev, Vitrigov and Tuntuev were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment, the Russian Investigative Committee said today.
As follows from the case file on the court website, Buluev and Namatov were accused of kidnapping, the verdict on the defendants was announced today.
Former member of the security service of the President of Chechnya, Ayub Tuntuev, was sentenced in 2008 to 24 years in prison on charges of involvement in the case of a terrorist attack in 2005 in the Chechen regional center of Znamenskoye.
In May 2016, an appeal against this sentence was filed with the ECtHR, and on June 1, 2017, it was communicated. The complaint states that on May 27, 2015, under torture, Tuntuev was forced to sign a statement in which he admitted his participation in military operations against the federal armed forces in Chechnya from 1994 to 2005 and in an armed clash in the summer of 1999 in the Botlikh region Dagestan.
In 2017, he was found guilty in the case of the attack on the Pskov paratroopers in 2000, the court, taking into account the old sentence, sentenced him to 24 years and 11 months in a strict regime colony.
Artur Ushaev was previously sentenced to 19 years in prison, and Ruslan Namatov to 18 years in the case of an attack on Pskov paratroopers.
On the night of March 1, 2000, soldiers of the sixth company of the 104th regiment of the 76th Guards Airborne Division entered into battle in Chechnya with a large detachment of Shamil Basayev and Khattab. For about a day, the company held back the onslaught of about 2,000 militants who tried to break out of the encirclement.
Then, 84 out of 90 servicemen died, 370 militants were killed. Among the reasons for the tragedy, analysts name corruption and incompetence of the command and officers, according to the information of the "Caucasian Knot" "Fight for Hill 776: how the Pskov paratroopers died."
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