July 13, 2001

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At about three o'clock in the village of Serzhen-Yurt, a group of 25–30 Russian servicemen in camouflage uniforms and masks with obscene language, shouting and insults broke into the house at 100 Sheripova Street. Threatening to shoot them, they drove all family members into the basement premises and took with them Beslan Daudovich Saydayev, born in 1978, who had been working as a bailiff in the Shali district since January 2001. In the testimonies of his relatives, it is noted that after the operation to remove the hernia, he left a scar on his body, which can also be taken as a trace of a wound.

The soldiers staged a pogrom in the house. They destroyed some of the property, and took some with them. Including: two video recorders, a camera, a leather vest, two pairs of shoes and money, more precisely, a pension for children.

The pogrom and robbery were repeated in the house of the kidnapped uncle (101 Sheripov Street). After beating the men, the military took valuables from there. This time they accompanied all their actions with foul language.

Relatives of Beslan Saidaev appealed to the commandant of the Shali district, the prosecutor of the military garrison stationed here (based on the 70th regiment of the RF Ministry of Defense), Yuri Anatolyevich Solovey, the head of the VOVD. In addition, they wrote a statement to the apparatus of the special representative office of the President of the Russian Federation, which was headed by Vladimir Kalamanov. But all this did not give any results: it was not possible to establish his whereabouts. On the fact of his abduction (Article 126, part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), on August 12, the prosecutor's office of the Shali district opened criminal case No. 23175. After two months, namely on September 12, 2001, it was suspended “due to the impossibility of finding persons to be brought in as defendants” (Article 195 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR). At the end of 2007, nothing was known about the fate of Beslan Daudovich Saidaev.

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At 8.30 on the outskirts of the village of Michurina in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny, as a result of a mine explosion, a local resident (lives at 95 Mordovtseva St.) Sharuddin Yusupovich Yasuev, born in 1947, was seriously injured. The cow he went out to graze died.

The wounded is the father of Said-Magomed (born in 1961) and Said-Salam (born in 1967) Yasuevs, detained on March 6, 2000 at the checkpoint "South" between the villages of Chiri-Yurt and the village of Duba-Yurt by servicemen 276th motorized rifle regiment and subsequently missing. In a column with other refugees, they tried to escape to the plain from the shelled Shatoi region. Together with them, fourteen more people disappeared there, most of them traveling with their families.
Separated from men, women and children from here, despite their desire to wait until the end of the inspection of husbands, fathers and brothers (by that time stripped to the waist for verification), were transported to a neighboring checkpoint. The car in which they were driving was driven by Sergey Larichev. After a check-up by an Asian female soldier (witnesses emphasized that she had narrow eyes), they were told that they could leave. However, they remained to wait for the men. When they did not appear, the women returned to the first checkpoint and learned that the men had allegedly been sent back to the mountains. The elder, according to the stories of women, was a military man who introduced himself as "San Sanych."

Subsequently, the bodies of three people detained together with the Yasuev brothers - Visita Vakhidovich Arsnukaev, born in 1964, Khusein Adamovich Didaev, born in 1964, and Vakha Alievich Titaev, born in 1961. - were found near the cemetery of the village of Tangi-Chu, Urus-Martan district. They had gunshot wounds on them.
The discovery of the corpses allowed the prosecutor's office of the Shali district to qualify the incident at the Yug checkpoint not as an abduction or illegal detention, but as a murder. In accordance with Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, on June 23, 2000, criminal case No. 22018 was initiated, which was then combined with criminal case No. 22008. The latter concerned the disappearance of three other people in the same place. On February 19, they were driving in two cars "Niva" and "Zhiguli" from the Shatoisky district and were detained allegedly to check their documents. On March 27, 2000, crushed by heavy armored vehicles and buried in a pit, their cars were found on the side of the Duba-Yurt-Chiri-Yurt road near the place where the Russian military men, who had withdrawn by that time, were standing.

At the end of 2007, the further fate of Said-Magomed and Said-Salam Yasuevs had not been established.

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At about 20:00 in the village of Sagopshi, an attempt was made to forcibly detain Ruslan Shamsudinovich Tsechoev, born in 1965. The operation involved employees of the North Caucasian RUBOP of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, stationed in the city of Nalchik. Later, their names also became known: A. Shebzukhov, Z. Musov, A. Khapov, O. Asfarov, I. Andrianov and K. Pugachev. They arrived at this place in cars. Eyewitnesses managed to remember the mark of one of them: green Zhiguli of the tenth model (VAZ-2110), registration number H 610 NS 99 / rus. According to local residents who took to the streets of the village to meet the livestock returning from grazing, a third vehicle was also present, but immediately after the start of the operation, it left the village. On it, as it turned out later, the participants in the seizure were accompanied by the former deputy prosecutor of the city of Malgobek, Magomed Yakhyaevich Evloev.

Employees of the North Caucasian RUBOP were in civilian clothes. They stopped cars next to Ruslan Tsechoev and, without introducing themselves or explaining their actions, tried to seize him. There was a scuffle. Seeing that strangers were trying to take away a fellow villager, local residents rushed to his aid. Law enforcement officers opened fire, as a result of which Larisa Aldamovna Umalatova was wounded in the shoulder. The shooting did not stop the Sagopshins, they not only prevented the capture of Ruslan Tsechoev, but also managed to detain the attackers themselves.

The failed kidnappers were immediately transferred to the Malgobek District Department of Internal Affairs. Soon their colleagues from Nalchik came for them. They presented some kind of “separate order”, signed by G. Diambekov, senior investigator of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Zaterechny Ministry of Defense of Vladikavkaz, according to which “an operation planned and sanctioned from above” was carried out in Sagopshi. The villagers who managed to prevent the removal of the fellow villager, he himself and the wounded woman were accused of “using violence against representatives of the authorities in connection with the performance of their official duties” (Article 318 part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The prosecutor's office of the Malgobek district opened a criminal case No. 01540033 against them.

Due to numerous complaints to the higher authorities of the prosecutor's office, supported by numerous testimonies, he was subsequently retrained. Larisa Umalatova and Ruslan Tsechoev were officially recognized as victims. However, they were not destined to wait for an objective investigation of what had happened: on January 13, 2002, the criminal case against employees of the North Caucasian RUBOP of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation was officially terminated.

Not resigned to this, on February 21, 2002, the victims filed a lawsuit with a claim for compensation for the damage caused by the illegal actions of law enforcement officers. Consideration of this case was unjustifiably delayed until on April 15, 2004, more than two years after the appeal, the judge of the Malgobek City Court Ya. Kartoev ruled that it should be considered within the framework of criminal rather than civil proceedings. Less than two months later, this decision, in turn, was overturned by the Supreme Court of the Republic of Ingushetia. On October 19, 2004, the Malgobek city court finally dismissed the claim by the victims. The "separate order" of the senior investigator of the prosecutor's office of the Zaterechny Moscow Region, Vladikavkaz, was also recognized as unlawful.

Under the "Solomon decision" is the signature of Y. Kartoev. Ruslan Tsechoev has repeatedly challenged this judge, claiming that he maintains friendly relations with Magomed Evloev, the former deputy prosecutor of the city of Malgobek, who is accused by him of killing his brother and dismissed from service because of his numerous appeals to the authorities. The conflict between them arose back in 1998: on October 23, dozens of residents of Ingushetia were taken into custody on completely far-fetched charges. They were suspected of aiding the criminals who kidnapped Magomed Keligov, the brother of one of the richest residents of the republic, Mussa Keligov. The order to detain them was signed by the Deputy Prosecutor of Malgobek. Ruslan Tsechoev at that time, studying in the fourth year of the correspondence department of the Faculty of Law, lived and worked in Yekaterinburg. He spoke about what happened next in his statement to Memorial Human Rights Center:

“...Among those detained then was my brother Suleiman. Upon learning of his arrest, I came home. I left work and school. Together with my relatives, I turned to Magomed Evloev. He asked to substantiate the motives for keeping his brother in custody. He replied that he was supposed to have a confrontation with some witness. But, as it turns out later, it will never be carried out, and in three months the real reason for the arrest will become clear. In February 1999, my sister, Lida Bogatyryova, and I again went to the deputy prosecutor of Malgobek and asked him to release my brother on bail. In an open form, he demanded $6,000 for this. The deal did not take place, because, having stated that there was no place to get such money from, we asked for an explanation of the reason why he demanded it from us. In response, Magomed Evloev began to pour threats. In particular, he said that he had good friends in the North Caucasian RUBOP and that if he handed over our brother to their hands, then “there he would be quickly made guilty, and there would be grounds for arrest, and maybe he would not be alive from there anymore.” will return." But neither I nor my sister took these words seriously. We thought that the deputy prosecutor wanted to intimidate us so that we would quickly pay the amount they demanded. As time has shown, Magomed Evloev had such connections and such opportunities ...

My brother, Suleiman Tsechoev, from the time of his detention until this day, was in the temporary detention center (IVS) at the Malgobek District Department of Internal Affairs all the time. Having received no money from us and fulfilling his threat, on February 24, around 11.30 pm, Magomed Evloev instructed to take his brother to Nalchik. There he entered the disposal of an employee of the RUBOP named V.A. Safonnikov. All that night and all the next day my brother was beaten and tortured, demanding to confess to kidnapping Magomed Keligov. He refused to do this, and then V.A. Safonnikov handed over his brother to pre-trial detention center No. 1 of the MJ in the KBR.

For a month we did not know anything about the fate of our brother. Magomed Evloev was hiding from us, forbidding the guards to let anyone into the prosecutor's office. Finally, when we nevertheless managed to meet with him, he said that he had fulfilled his promise and handed over Suleiman to the RUBOP employees. When asked where he should now be looked for, he said: “Look in the isolation wards of the North Caucasus.”

We accidentally learned about his exact whereabouts from a man who had been released from SIZO-1 in Nalchik. He said that he was in the same cell (cell No. 8) with our brother and that because of the torture and beatings, he needed urgent medical assistance.

It was March 21, 1999, and the very next day, together with the lawyer Magomed Gandarov, we left for Nalchik. Meeting with his brother was achieved with great difficulty. He was all swollen from the beatings, bruises covered his entire body. The ribs were broken, the kidneys were beaten off. The medical certificate (No. 762 dated March 22, 1999) issued in the pre-trial detention center a month after being delivered from the RUBOP described only a part of the injuries inflicted on him, and even then only superficially...

With a complaint about the actions of Magomed Evloev, I turned to the prosecutor's office of the republic, to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. Citing his brother as an example, he wrote that Evloev illegally detains people, demands a ransom for their release, using violent methods, tries to force them to confess to uncommitted crimes. I gave hard, documented evidence of his misconduct. For example, he recalled that back in 1994, when he was an assistant prosecutor in the city of Malgobek, “for forcing a detainee to give false testimony” (Article 179, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR), a criminal case was initiated against him under No. 94540050. Then he managed to redeem himself. Feeling, apparently, impunity, he continued his criminal actions, as a result, dozens of people were crippled, and my brother was killed.

It happened on August 23, 1999. On that day, four people in the uniform of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation presented documents, which, as it turned out later, were fake, and, explaining that they were going to transfer him, abducted him from SIZO-1 in Nalchik and shot him with four shots in the head from pistol. On this fact, the prosecutor's office of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic initiated a criminal case No. 16/24-99. At the very beginning of the investigation, the involvement of Magomed Evloev in this crime was established. In the conclusion of the forensic examination of the city of Rostov-on-Don dated 12/14/1999, it was confirmed that the documents left by the criminals in the pre-trial detention center SIZO-1 were forged by him for the kidnapping and subsequent murder of my brother.

Only after that, the prosecutor's office of the Republic of Ingushetia opened a criminal case against Magomed Evloev (No. 99540071 under Art. 286 part 3 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (“abuse of official powers with grave consequences”)), although many of the facts that formed its basis were reported by me long before that. I have repeatedly appealed to the prosecutor's office with a demand to remove Magomed Evloev from work and bring him to criminal liability. But before the murder of my brother, no one needed it. I received replies, I was informed that my arguments were checked and supposedly not confirmed, i.e. the prosecutor's office shielded its employee in any way possible for this.

On May 15, 2000, the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus merged both of these cases into one. Let me just remind you that this is the same department that in 1994 stopped the criminal prosecution of Magomed Evloev under Article 179 Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR.

Something similar happened this time as well. On March 24, 2000, for example, the Nalchik City Court released him on bail. And this is in relation to a person suspected of committing a particularly serious crime. Once free, he began to exert all-round pressure on the investigation, using his high financial position and connections for this. Using his acquaintances among law enforcement officers, he tried to intimidate me and my relatives, demanded that we not dare to complain anywhere.

Since the murder of my brother, I have applied, more than once, to all state authorities of the Russian Federation. "I did not leave without attention" neither the Prosecutor General's Office, nor the Ministry of Internal Affairs, nor even the President's Office, the State Duma and the Federation Council of the country. Representatives of human rights organizations knew about my trouble. And I demanded one thing from everyone: full compliance with Russian legislation and punishment of the criminal, no matter what epaulettes he hides under! For some time my active position prevented the collapse of the criminal case, and it was clear to me from the very beginning that some of the investigators bought by Magomed Evloev were acting in this direction. I spared neither effort nor money to bring the guilty person to justice, but this was still not enough.

The case was conducted biased, the investigators complained that there was no transport, that it was difficult to carry out investigative actions in Ingushetia, that it was allegedly risky. I myself took one of them for almost a year to investigative actions, but in the end he was removed from the case. He was handed over to another "detective", then to another one. The investigation was then suspended, then resumed again after my numerous appeals to the prosecutor's office.

And on April 11, 2000, the investigation into the murder of my brother was entrusted to the investigator for especially important cases of the Directorate of the General Prosecutor's Office in the North Caucasus, I.O. Kuptsov. As it turned out later, this man suffered from a chronic form of alcoholism and was always in a state of intoxication. It turned out to be a godsend for Magomed Evloev. The only thing that this unfortunate investigator managed to offer us, the victims, was that we ourselves, as is usual according to local customs, deal with the accused. Together with him, he openly traveled in the same car and transported volumes of the criminal case in it.

As a result, investigator I.O. Kuptsov stole original documents from criminal case No. 16/24-99, which were important in the handwriting examination, and replaced them with others prepared by Magomed Evloev. This is confirmed by the answer from the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation dated February 22, 2002 No. 18/24411-01, which I have. Hidden from us by the Directorate of the General Prosecutor's Office in the North Caucasus, this investigator was fired. I was told about this in the prosecutor's office of the Republic of Ingushetia. Currently, criminal case No. 16/3499 on the murder of my brother and criminal case No. 99540071 on abuses by the former deputy prosecutor of the city of Malgobek Magomed Evloev are suspended due to the failure to identify the person to be charged as an accused (Article 208, paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) . And this despite the fact that in both cases there is enough evidence that this person did wrong.

Since the murder of my brother, including here the period of allegedly active investigation of this crime, against me and my family members on the instructions of Magomed Evloev and with the participation of law enforcement officers, including the North Caucasus Regional Department for Combating Organized Crime (RUBOP) Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, several crimes were committed. In particular, in 1999 Magomed Merzhoev made an attempt on my life. The killer was detained and a criminal case No. 99540074 was initiated against him by the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Ingushetia. On November 4, 2000, unknown people threw an explosive device into my yard. Luckily, none of my relatives were hurt, only the fence was destroyed by the explosion. And on this occasion, a criminal case was also initiated (No. 20140248, Malgobek District Department of Internal Affairs). Between my relatives and the relatives of Magomed Evloev, who apparently believed that his career had come to an end through my fault, fights repeatedly took place ...

The following fact speaks about the reaction of the authorities and on whose side the sympathies of its representatives turned out to be. On May 23, 1999, when I was leaving my house, I was fired upon from automatic weapons. On the metal fence, traces are still visible, or rather holes from bullets. I turned to the then prosecutor of the city of Malgobek G. Merzhuev. But at my request to take the necessary measures to find and punish the criminals, he offered me to detain them myself and transfer them to law enforcement agencies ... "

From the book "People Live Here", Usam Baisaev, Dmitry Grushkin, 2006