Shambilov case: minor “militant”

A native of Dagestan, Renat Shambilov, received a much more lenient punishment under the same article. The Khasavyurt District Court sentenced him to four years and seven months in prison on charges of attacking Russian military personnel in 1999. As the press service of the FSB Directorate for the Stavropol Territory explained in its message, the court took into account that at the time of the crime Shambilov was a minor.
Obviously, this is not the last verdict in the case of the invasion of Basayev and Khattab’s detachments into Dagestan. Although almost a quarter of a century has passed since then, law enforcement officers continue to detain suspects of involvement in the attack on Russian military personnel.
Thus, in December 2022, alleged members of Basayev’s and Khattab’s detachments, Kairbek Bakiev and Ilkhan Kanmurzaev, were detained in the Stavropol Territory. Last October, FSB officers announced the detention of two more former militants: Takhir Begeldiev in Neftekumsk and Adilkhan Elmanbetov in Tomsk. Their trial is still ahead.

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