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2023-08-07 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Zelimkhan Mazaev convicted in terrorism financing case
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] The court sentenced Zelimkhan Mazaev, a native of Chechnya, to eight years in prison, finding him guilty of financing a militant's trip to Syria. Mazaev was previously suspected of organizing the murder of Sulim Yamadayev, the former commander of the Vostok battalion.
| The Vostok battalion was a Spetsnaz unit that fought the post-Soviet, Al Qaeda-linked Republic of Ichkeria, which in 2007 became the Caucasus Emirate. Then in 2015, following the latest fad in the jihadi world, most of them switched their allegiance to ISIS as Vilayat Kavkaz and promptly decamped for the relative safety of Syria, where they could conquer for the glory of Allah instead of being hunted down and killed by the Spetsnaz— or worse, spend years on trial in the Russian courts. |
As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, in September 2022, Zelimkhan Mazaeva, a native of Chechnya, was accused of organizing a militant group. On March 16, it became known that his charges were reduced.
On January 9, 2017, it became known that the Lefortovo Court of Moscow found Mazaev guilty of robbery and sentenced him to six years in a penal colony, and three other defendants to five years in prison.
| So many jihadis spend their off hours engaging in robbery, fraud, and rape for fun and profit — boring criminals rather than noble lions of Islam. And now that Mr. Mazaev has finished his robbery prison sentence, he can go right back in for financing terrorists. |
Mazaev and three of his alleged accomplices were detained in February 2015 in Moscow on suspicion of robbery against two men. According to investigators, the men were beaten and robbed, they were threatened with an object that looked like a gun.
| Is that a hint that he was not man enough to have the real thing? |
A court in Moscow sentenced 42-year-old Zelimkhan Mazayev to eight years in prison, finding him guilty of recruiting and inciting terrorist activities, Kavkaz.Realii reported on August 5.
The 2nd Western District Military Court considered the prosecution's version proven that he financed the militant's trip to Syria in April 2014, Kommersant reported.
Recall that earlier the investigation put forward the version that Mazaev financed the sending of two residents of Chechnya to Syria - Adam Sugaipov and Yuni Murdiev. Both were detained in 2017 at Krasnodar airport when they failed to answer questions about the purpose of their trip to Turkey. During interrogation at the FSB, they confessed that they were going to Syria.
Sugaipov and Murdiev were accused of preparing to participate in the activities of a terrorist organization and were sentenced by a court to seven and eight years in prison. As part of the pre-trial agreements they concluded, they named their alleged sponsors, including Zelimkhan Mazaev.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that in 2009 Mazaev became one of the suspects in the murder of the former commander of the "Vostok" battalion, Sulim Yamadayev, who was shot dead in Dubai.
| ...an action of Caucasus Emirate. |
For the murder of Yamadayev, the former groom of the head of Chechnya, Iranian Mahdi Lornia and a citizen of Tajikistan, businessman Maksujon Ismatov, were accused in the UAE. On April 12, 2010, a court in Dubai sentenced them to life imprisonment. The defendants declared their innocence.
On December 22, 2010, the Dubai Court of Appeal commuted life imprisonment to 27 months in prison. In July 2011, they were released from a Dubai prison and deported from the UAE.
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