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Organized crime in the Caucasus region.
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[KavkazUzel] A court in Moscow sentenced 14 people to imprisonment, recognizing them as members of a criminal community operating under the leadership of Raul Arashukov and his son, former senator from Karachay-Cherkessia Rauf Arashukov.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, about 20 people were accused in the case of a criminal community, along with Rauf and Raul Arashukov. Among them are Beslan Arashukov \, Ruslan Arashukov and Igor Travinov.
On December 27, 2022, the Moscow City Court sentenced to life imprisonment the former senator from Karachay-Cherkessia Rauf Arashukov and his father Raul Arashukov, a former adviser to the general director of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz. On the day of the Arashukov verdict, the Moscow City Court announced the sentences of four other defendants in the case. The former head of the ICR department for Karachay-Cherkessia, Kazbek Bulatov, and the former head of the republican Center for Specialist Enforcement, Timur Betuganov, were sentenced to 22 years in prison, the former investigator of the ICR, Andrei Filippov, to 6.5 years in prison, and the former director of the Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Stavropol LLC branch, Guzer Khashukaev, to five years. years. The appeal court upheld the verdicts. What is known about the Arashukov clan can be read in the “Caucasian Knot” reference “ The main thing about the Arashukov case.”
The Preobrazhensky Court of Moscow sentenced Ruslan Arashukov to 16.5 years in prison in the case of a criminal association, RIA Novosti reports today. “Finally assign Ruslan Mikhailovich Arashukov... 16 years and 6 months to serve in a maximum security colony,” the agency quotes the judge as saying.
Beslan Arashukov was sentenced to 16 years in prison. The defendants, depending on their role, were found guilty of participation in a criminal community, theft from Gazprom structures in southern Russia and abuse of power, the publication says.
The Preobrazhensky Court also sentenced 12 more defendants in the case of a criminal community created, according to investigators, for the theft of gas by Raul Arashukov. In particular, the court sentenced the former general director of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Stavropol Igor Travinov to 19.5 years in a maximum security colony, Interfax reports today.
Among the other 11 convicts are relatives of the Arashukovs, former managers and employees of regional divisions of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz in the North Caucasus and other defendants.
Depending on the role of each, they were found guilty of participation in a criminal community (Part 3 of Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and from one to six episodes of especially large embezzlement (Part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Several defendants pleaded guilty, the agency writes, citing a court representative.
Let us recall that on September 23, 2022, the jury found it proven that Rauf and Raul Arashukov were involved in the murders of the deputy chairman of the Adyghe-Khase movement, Aslan Zhukov, and the adviser to the head of Karachay-Cherkessia, Fral Shebzukhov. The Arashukovs refused to admit guilt. More information about the murders of which Rauf Arashukov is accused of organizing can be read in the Caucasian Knot document “ Resonant murders in Karachay-Cherkessia.”
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