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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

A resident of Karachay-Cherkessia convicted of preparing a terrorist act

2023-07-27

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] The court found Dmitry Igumentsev, a resident of Karachay-Cherkessia, guilty of preparing a terrorist attack and participating in the activities of an extremist organization. The man was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

A resident of Karachay-Cherkessia, Dmitry Igumentsev, was found guilty in the case of a terrorist attack, the press service of the Southern District Military Court reported today.

According to the investigation and the court, Igumentsev joined a cell of the banned extremist association At-Takfir Val-Hijra

...At Takfir wal Hijra split off from the Muslim Brotherhood in about 1970 to pursue violent jihad. It split again when the more moderate faction followed Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who subsequently became Al Qaeda’s second in command. Takfir wal Hijra has cells all over the world ...

and organized its activities - held meetings of participants, organized the study of extremist religious literature. Igumentsev was also preparing for a terrorist attack - "illegally acquired and stored explosive devices, explosives, firearms, ammunition and cartridges in a cache," but was detained on February 9, 2021, according to a message on the court's Telegram channel.

Igumentsev was found guilty of organizing the activities of an extremist organization, storing weapons and ammunition, and preparing for a terrorist attack and was sentenced to 15 years in a strict regime colony with the first five years in prison. He also was fined 100,000 rubles.

The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that in February 2021, the FSB reported on the detention in four regions of southern Russia, including Karachay-Cherkessia, 19 supporters of "At-Takfir wal-Hijra"* who were planning terrorist acts in the North Caucasus. In a forest in Karachay-Cherkessia, they found a cache with a machine gun, an AKM assault rifle, cartridges and improvised explosive devices with a total mass of more than three kilograms of TNT, "including the so-called suicide belt with striking elements," the report says.

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