[KavkazUzel] According to security forces, Ingush imams Muhammad Tamaskhanov and Magomed Sultygov did not report that a member of Amirkhan Gurazhev’s group approached them with a request for help.
As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, the imam of one of the mosques in Nazran, Muhammad Tamaskhanov, and the imam of the mosque in Karabulak, Magomed (Muhammad) Sultygov, were detained on April 10. Anonymous Telegram channels cited the imams' failure to report the actions of the militants of Amirkhan Gurazhev's group as the reason for the detention. That evening, it became known that Tamaskhanov and Sultygov had been released . According to anonymous Telegram channels, they were released on bail.
On March 3, 2024, during a counter-terrorist operation in Karabulak, security forces killed six people - according to sources, Amirkhan Gurazhev, Zelimkhan Tsuroev, Magomed Barkinkhoev, Tagir Tsuroev, Mikail Tutaev and Bers Chemurziev were killed. Security forces declared them militants of  the banned terrorist organization "Islamic State". "Caucasian Knot" prepared a report " How the special operation in Karabulak took place ".
A 37-year-old and 31-year-old resident of Ingushetia are suspected of failing to report terrorist crimes (Article 205.6 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the republican department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reported on April 12.
"According to the investigation, in August 2023, a member of an international terrorist organization, whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation, approached the suspects with a request for financial and other assistance necessary to continue terrorist activities. The defendants, reliably knowing that the said person had committed terrorist crimes, did not report this to the law enforcement agencies of the republic," the department's Telegram channel said.
The person who asked for help was Ganiev from Gurazhev’s group, and the suspects were Sultygov and Tamaskhanov, an Interfax source in law enforcement agencies explained.
A 33-year-old resident of Ingushetia, Khazir Ganiev, was killed in a shootout with security forces in Sunzha on November 22, 2023. According to security forces, Ganiev was an accomplice of Amirkhan Gurazhev. This information was confirmed in October 2024 after his arrest by Sunzha resident Alikhan Ozdoyev, who was wanted on suspicion of aiding Gurazhev's group.
According to the security official, employees of the republican Center for Combating Extremism and the Federal Security Service found out that in the summer of 2023, Ganiev approached imams Sultygov and Tamaskhanov with a request to provide him with financial assistance. Security officials believe that Ganiev needed the money to continue his terrorist activities.
The source added that a preventive measure in the form of a written undertaking not to leave was chosen for Sultygov and Tamaskhanov, the agency writes.
Recall that Ingush journalist Izabella Yevloyeva had earlier cast doubt on the version about the connection between the imams' detention and the case of Gurazhev's group. "It is possible that someone from Gurazhev's group had ever visited the mosques where the detained imams served, but this is not grounds for their prosecution. However, for the security forces in the region, such an indirect reason may be sufficient," she told the "Caucasian Knot."
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