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| A native of the Kuban considered the revenge of the security forces the case of financing terrorism |
| 2023-03-25 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] The case of financing terrorism against a native of Kuban, Irina Dudka, was the revenge of the security forces for protesting against the sentence of her sister, who was convicted on a similar charge, and her complaints about the actions of the security forces, Dudka herself said. The person who received the money transfer from Irina Dudka was a witness in criminal cases against Dagestan journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev and Georgy Guev, a native of North Ossetia, who were also accused of financing terrorists. The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in December 2021, the court sentenced Olga Petrova, a native of the Krasnodar Territory, to seven years in prison, finding her guilty of financing terrorism. Petrova's sister Irina Dudka told the "Caucasian Knot" that she left Russia because of threats to her life and freedom from the security forces. Olga Petrova was charged with nine money transfers to Sagid Kazimagomedov, a resident of Dagestan, who, according to investigators, collected money for the militants and later bought air tickets for those who wanted to join the Islamic State militants in Syria. Olga Petrova stated in court that the main witnesses for the prosecution, Sagid Kazimagomedov and Anna Papushina, retracted their initial testimony at the trial . The sister of the convict is also suspected of financing terrorism Irina Dudka, who left Russia in 2021, became a suspect in the financing of terrorism, according to the decision to open a criminal case issued on August 5, 2022 by an investigator of the ICR department for the Krasnodar Territory. According to the document, a copy of which is at the disposal of the "Caucasian Knot", the reason for initiating a case under Part 1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation was the information of the FSB and the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Krasnodar Territory. "In an unspecified period of time, but no later than December 18, 2016, Irina Dudka, who professes the ideas of radical Islam, had a criminal intent to finance terrorism," the resolution says. According to the investigation, Irina Dudka, "realizing the criminal nature of her intentions and being a supporter of the terrorist organization Islamic State, as well as professing Islamic extremism of the Wahhabi persuasion," met Nurpasha Bekbolatov online, who was raising money to finance ISIS. The ruling states that on December 18, 2016, Dudka transferred 11,700 rubles to Bekbolatov, knowing that the money was intended for the purchase of air tickets for people wishing to join the terrorists in Syria. Irina Dudka considered the version of the investigation unfounded Irina Dudka herself denies her involvement in any radical ideologies and groups. “How could they even draw conclusions about my ideology and intentions, based on the translation of a person who sold tickets to hundreds of Muslims, and this was his main activity, which is what he still does? He even has the call sign “Pasha Aeroflot,” as he said I was the FSB investigator himself during interrogation. I could not be a financier of terrorism, I never had such goals. I am an ardent opponent of terrorism and have never supported any terrorist groups either financially or morally," she told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. The woman explained that she really transferred the amount of money to Nurpasha Bekbolatov in December 2016, returning the money that her husband borrowed from Bekbolatov to buy tickets from Russia to Egypt. "At the beginning of 2016, Bekbolatov lived in Egypt and was engaged in the sale of air tickets, money transfers from Egypt to Russia and vice versa, earned money by lending at interest and advertising his services via the Internet on Egyptian sites, on VKontakte, in WhatsApp information groups "Buy-sell. My husband was in Egypt at that moment, and my son and I were in Russia. My husband wanted my son and I to come, but we did not have money for tickets. Seeing Nurpashi Bekbolatov's announcement about that he lends money at interest, the husband turned to him for this service," she said. According to Irina Dudka, at the beginning of 2016, Bekbolatov transferred a little more than 14 thousand rubles to her Sberbank card, and in March 2016 she bought tickets and flew with her son to Egypt. "We were able to repay the debt only in December 2016, and even then not the full amount. I transferred the amount of 11,700 rubles to Bekbolatov’s card as a debt in December 2016, since we didn’t have any more, which we informed Bekbolatov about and asked deferred payment, which he rudely refused us. After that, we had a big fight with him and didn’t communicate anymore," said Irina Dudka. This transfer to Bekbolatov became a formal basis for initiating a case, she believes. "They opened a case on the transfer of Nurpasha Bekbolatov, he is the main witness in the case. They wrote that the transfer was made in 2016, but in fact it was a refund of the amount. My transfer to him was the return, the return of the debt. "They didn't reflect Bekbolatov in my address in the criminal case. That is, in fact, if they are talking about an article about sponsorship, then I returned the money to him, and not all of it. Thus, the investigation simply invented a criminal case against me - as they say for that I complained about them and defended my sister's innocence," said Irina Dudka. She explained that in the presence of a lawyer during a search in her parents' house, the security forces "plainly" stated that a criminal case had been initiated because "there was no need to complain." "I was threatened during interrogation that if I did not write against my sister, they would also put me in jail, and they talked about Nurpash Bekbolatov. After, in 2021, I was registered for practicing Islam, an operative from the criminal investigation called me, shouted me, and I realized that everything was going to this [criminal case], so I left, being forced to leave my elderly mother and home. The answer to my complaints about the threats came in such a way that I turned to the place where I was interrogated, that is, to the FSB, group "K", the 10th department, namely the FSB operative […], who also threatened me. The materials say that a criminal case was initiated on their report," Dudka said. Bekbolatov, according to her, "lives freely in Istanbul and, as before, continues to sell air tickets." Information about Bekbolatov's residence in Istanbul and that he sells tickets via Instagram** was also confirmed to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by other sources. Bekbolatov appears as prosecution witness in three terrorist financing cases A witness named Bekbolatov also appears in the case of Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, editor of the Dagestani newspaper Chernovik, Abubakar Rizvanov, head of the Ansar charity foundation, and Kemal Tambiev, who have been in custody since June 2019 on charges of financing terrorism. Investigators believe that Gadzhiev, Rizvanov and Tambiev collected 68 million rubles and 200 thousand dollars for the terrorists under the pretext of building mosques and helping poor Muslims. The investigation connects the defendants with Israil Akhmednabiev, a Dagestan preacher and founder of the Mukhadzhirun Islamic Foundation, known as Abu Umar Sasitlinsky, who has been put on the wanted list in a terrorism case. The defendants plead not guilty. The details of Gadzhiev's case are collected in the material of the "Caucasian Knot" "Golunov number two": the main thing about the case of Abdulmumin Gadzhiev." In January 2023, Hajiyev's lawyer Arsen Shabanov stated in court that in August 2019, a lawyer's protocol of interrogation of witness Bekbolatov, a man to whom, according to investigators, Abdulmumin Gadzhiev transferred money for the purchase of air tickets, was announced. "This happened repeatedly, and there were cases when Abdulmumin paid him off later: that is, he received tickets on credit , flew them, and then paid. The tickets themselves were attached to the case," the lawyer said. The interrogation referred to by Gadzhiev's lawyer took place at a court hearing in the case of Georgy Guev, a native of North Ossetia, who was also accused of financing terrorism. Guev's defense then drew attention to the fact that at about the same time as Guev, at least 10-12 people were detained, who are also charged with financing terrorism. "In at least one case, the case of Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, there is the same witness for the prosecution as in the case of Guev - a certain Bekbolatov, who has already been convicted for paying the way for several people who left to fight in Syria. It is clear that in the colony one person can put pressure on him to give the necessary evidence," the lawyer said in court. It should be noted that Anna Papushina, who testified against sister Irina Dudka, and subsequently refused to testify, saying that they were given under pressure from the investigation, was also a witness for the prosecution in the Guev case. Taking into account her testimony, the court in November 2020 sentenced Guev to six years in a penal colony. The appeals court later upheld the verdict. Anna Papushina also appears in the case of Gadzhiev , Rizvanov and Tambiev as a witness for the prosecution. She "is in places of deprivation of liberty in the Far North," the state prosecutor in the Gadzhiev case said in October 2021 in court. |
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