A criminal case has been sent to the Southern District Military Court against a native of Dagestan, Ibragim Magomedov. He is accused of attacking the republic in 1999 as part of a detachment led by field commanders Shamil Basayev and Khattab.

According to investigators, Magomedov, being a member of the detachment of field commander Shamil Basayev and Khattab, attacked employees of the Novolaksky District Department of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan in 1999.

“He fired a firearm at the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who were in the building of the sports hall of the cultural center of the village of Novolaksky, as a result of which two people were killed and 18 were injured,” reads a message on the website of the Prosecutor General’s Office for the Southern and North Caucasian Federal Districts.

A criminal case was opened against the man under articles on armed rebellion, attempted murder of security forces and banditry. According to human rights activists, the cases of the alleged members of Basayev and Khattab's detachment were falsified using testimony from hidden witnesses and information obtained under torture.