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Zelimkhan Mazaev convicted in terrorism financing case | |||||
2023-08-07 | |||||
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] The court sentenced Zelimkhan Mazaev, a native of Chechnya, to eight years in prison, finding him guilty of financing a militant's trip to Syria. Mazaev was previously suspected of organizing the murder of Sulim Yamadayev, the former commander of the Vostok battalion.
On January 9, 2017, it became known that the Lefortovo Court of Moscow found Mazaev guilty of robbery and sentenced him to six years in a penal colony, and three other defendants to five years in prison.
The 2nd Western District Military Court considered the prosecution's version proven that he financed the militant's trip to Syria in April 2014, Kommersant reported. Recall that earlier the investigation put forward the version that Mazaev financed the sending of two residents of Chechnya to Syria - Adam Sugaipov and Yuni Murdiev. Both were detained in 2017 at Krasnodar airport when they failed to answer questions about the purpose of their trip to Turkey. During interrogation at the FSB, they confessed that they were going to Syria. Sugaipov and Murdiev were accused of preparing to participate in the activities of a terrorist organization and were sentenced by a court to seven and eight years in prison. As part of the pre-trial agreements they concluded, they named their alleged sponsors, including Zelimkhan Mazaev. The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that in 2009 Mazaev became one of the suspects in the murder of the former commander of the "Vostok" battalion, Sulim Yamadayev, who was shot dead in Dubai.
On December 22, 2010, the Dubai Court of Appeal commuted life imprisonment to 27 months in prison. In July 2011, they were released  from a Dubai prison and deported from the UAE.
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