The Chechnya Supreme Court sentenced gang members Shamil Basaev and Khattab to life imprisonment. informs Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation.
Reportedly, in March 2000, the accused attacked a riot police convoy near the village of Jani-Vedeno. As a result of the attack, 26 OMON officers and 6 soldiers were martyred.
Formerly in Karachay-Cherkess arrested Shamil Basayev and Khattab – ex-member of the Abdulyalim Dzhumagishiev gang, one of the participants in the murder of 15 Russian soldiers in Chechnya in October 1999. This was reported by the Russian Federal Security Service.
It was noted that the person born in 1981 is a citizen of the Russian Federation. According to the FSB, irrefutable evidence was collected that Dzhumagishiev participated in an armed attack on Russian soldiers by the Basayev and Khattab gang in October 1999 near the village of Chervlennaya, Shelkovsky District of the Chechen Republic.
The man was charged according to the articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Bandit”, “Armed riot” and “Rape against the life of a law enforcement officer”.