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| Chechen convicted of financing Syrian militants | |
| 2021-10-20 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] A court in Rostov-on-Don today sentenced Chechen resident Magomed Dakaev to 5.5 years in prison, finding him guilty of transferring money to terrorists in Syria. According to the investigation, the 33-year-old native of Urus-Martan, Magomed Dakaev, was accused of facilitating terrorist activities (part 1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of Russia), the punishment for which provides for from five to fifteen years in prison. "It was established that at the beginning of June 2014, the defendant, while in the Chechen Republic, handed over 2,000 rubles to a fellow villager for transfer to their mutual acquaintance who was in the Syrian Arab Republic in an illegal armed formation. In the same year, the defendant provided 7,000 rubles to other persons for their departure, to the territory of the SAR to participate in the [illegal armed formation]," an employee of the press service of the Southern District Military Court told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. In court, Dakaev pleaded guilty in part. He was found guilty and sentenced to five years and six months in a general regime colony. The verdict has not entered into legal force and can be appealed by the parties in the Military Court of Appeal, the press service said. "Caucasian Knot" has not yet received any comments from Magomed Dakaev and his representatives regarding the verdict of the court . The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on August 3 it became known that a Chechen resident, Mohamadkhan Abdulvahabov, was sentenced by a court to six years in prison, having been found guilty of transferring money to a friend for a trip to Syria.
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