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| Kabardino-Balkaria suspect convicted in recruitment case |
| 2021-12-17 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. ]KavkazUzel] A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria Aznaur Chechenov to 10 years in a strict regime colony, having found him guilty of recruiting a local resident into the ranks of Syrian militants. Chechenov pleaded not guilty. As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, Aznaur Chechenov was detained on March 23, 2020. In February, a court in Rostov-on-Don extended his detention. Aznaur Chechenov, a 30-year-old native of the Sovetsky village in the Sovetsky region of Kabardino-Balkaria, was accused of aiding terrorism, illegal arms trafficking and illegal arms manufacture. "It was established that at the end of January 2020, in the urban settlement of Kashkhatau in the Cherek region of Kabardino-Balkaria, Chechenov, in the course of communication with the citizen "Petrov " (pseudonym), urged him to go to Syria to participate in the armed struggle against the government forces of this state as part of an international organization, Islamic state. Then Chechenov remade a single-barreled hunting rifle barely enough, which he placed in the trunk of his car. On February 13, 2020, the sawn-off shotgun was discovered and seized by law enforcement officers," court. Chechenov was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in a maximum security colony with four years in prison, as well as a fine of 100 thousand rubles. There were no comments by Aznaur Chechenov or his official representatives regarding the verdict of the court. Earlier, lawyer Kazim Atabiev told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the accusation against Chechenov is based on the testimony of a secret witness, and the accused himself denies his guilt. During the trial, Chechenov also did not admit his guilt, the press service said. The criminal case against Chechenov entered the court on January 29, the sessions on the merits began at the end of March, the process took 20 sessions, follows from the card index on the website of the Southern District Military Court. |
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