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01.01.2025

Two more accomplices of terrorists Basayev and Khattab detained

The Russian Interior Ministry has detained two accomplices of terrorists Shamil Basayev and Emir al-Khattab. This was stated by the official representative of the Ministry Irina Volk.

"The officers of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the North Caucasus Federal District, in cooperation with the FSB of Russia, detained two men. <...> The gang, which included the defendants, was under the general leadership of Shamil Basayev and Emir Khattab," Irina Volk wrote in her Telegram channel. According to the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the detainees are suspected of attacking Russian military personnel as part of terrorist attacks in the period from 1999 to 2000.

One of the suspects in the crimes of past years was detained in the Tver Region, the second one in Vladimir. Both are currently in custody. Volk emphasized that terrorist attacks have no statute of limitations.

At the end of September this year, the Southern District Military Court also sentenced two other members of the terrorist Shamil Basayev's group. The defendants in the case, Nazhmudin Dudiyev and Ibragim Donashev, were accused of committing a terrorist attack in Chechnya in 2005, killing 15 people.

Source: 19rusinfo.ru