[Regnum] The defendant in the case of the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall, Khusen Medov (included in the list of terrorists and extremists in the Russian Federation), who made the assault rifles, received about 500 thousand rubles for the weapons. This follows from the materials of the criminal case.
A gunsmith from Ingushetia purchased three blank-firing Kalashnikov assault rifles online and bought another one at a hunting store in Malgobek. In January 2024, Khavazh-Bagaudin Aliyev (listed as a terrorist and extremist in the Russian Federation) approached him with a request to help convert these weapons into combat weapons, stating that the assault rifles were planned to be used in criminal conflicts at the Sadovod market in Moscow.
During interrogation, Medov described in detail how he was trained to convert blank-firing weapons into combat weapons, as well as the process of making machine guns. To test their functionality, he fired several shots in the yard of his house, after which he stored the weapons in the attic.
“For the weapons sold, about 500 thousand rubles were transferred to his mother’s card, which she didn’t know about, which he cashed and after some time transferred to Aliyev,” TASS quoted the gunsmith as saying.
Their accomplices transported these weapons to Dagestan through hiding places, and later the accomplices of the terrorist attack delivered them to Moscow.