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[KavkazUzel] At today's meeting on the case of the murder of the head of the Ingush Center for Combating Extremism. Ibragim Eldzharkiev and his brother, the defense filed a motion to return the case to the prosecutor's office, but the court refused to satisfy it.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on December 12, 2022, the Investigative Committee announced the completion of the investigation into the criminal case of Khasan Polonkoev and 10 others accused of the murder of Ibragim Eldzharkiev and his brother.
| The accused killers, known as Batalkhadzhins, are followers of Sheikh Batal-Khadji (also known as Batal-haji Belkharoyev), revered as a Sufi Islam teacher during the early part of the 20th century in Ingushetia and other parts of the North Caucasus. They appear to engage in the usual misbehaviours common to the region. |
Investigators consider Polonkoev the organizer and leader of the terrorist community operating in Ingushetia, and the rest of the accused are members of this community. At the first meeting in the Southern District Military Court, which took place on February 8, the defendants refused to plead guilty.
The head of the Ingush Center for Combating Extremism, Ibragim Eldzharkiev, was shot dead in Moscow on November 2, 2019, along with his brother Akhmed Eldzharkiev. The main facts about the murder of Ibragim Eldzharkiev and the conclusions of the investigation are collected in the brief information of the "Caucasian Knot" "The main thing about the murder of Ibragim Eldzharkiev."
The court rejected the defense's request to return to the prosecutor's office the criminal case on the murder of the head of the Center for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Ingushetia, Ibragim Eldzharkiev, at a meeting in the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, TASS reported today. "The court ruled to deny the motion of the defense to return the criminal case to the prosecutor's office," the agency quoted the judge as saying.
The case went to court on December 23, 2022. Since that moment, defenders of the defendants have sent six complaints to the Military Court of Appeal, all of them have been accepted for consideration. Today, the second hearing in the case took place, information about the date of the new hearing is not contained in the case card on the website of the Southern District Military Court by 21.00 Moscow time.
According to investigators, in 2019 the defendants committed two terrorist attacks against Ibragim Eldzharkiev. "As a result of the second attack, committed in November 2019 in Moscow, the latter (Ibragim Eldzharkiev) and his brother were killed," the press service of the Investigative Committee said.
The first assassination attempt on Ibragim Eldzharkiev took place on January 12, 2019. His car was fired upon on the federal highway, the three policemen who were in it were injured, but Eldzharkiev himself was not injured. After Eldzharkiev's assassination, sources suggested that he was killed in a blood feud amid his conflict with the Batalkhadzhins, one of whose leaders, Ibragim Belkharoev, was killed in 2018. However, investigators stated in January 2020 that Ibragim Eldzharkiev's professional activities were the motive for the murder, and versions of religious motives and revenge were not confirmed.
Lawyers for one of the accused, Alikhan Belkharoev, have repeatedly complained about not being allowed to see him in the pre-trial detention center in Vladikavkaz. In January 2021, Alikhan Belkharoev told his lawyers that the security forces had tortured him in order to force him to confess.
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