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Two to be prosecuted for the murder of 246 people

The case of the apartment bombings is finished

terrorism

Yusuf Krymshamkhalov and Adam Dekkushev will stand trial when they finish reading their multi-volume case

Yesterday, the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia announced the completion of the investigation into a series of terrorist attacks committed in the fall of 1999 in Moscow and Volgodonsk. Only two terrorists—Yusuf Krymshamkhalov and Adam Dekkushev—will stand trial, which will most likely take place in closed session on the territory of a pre-trial detention center (SIZO).

As the investigation claimed, the explosions, which claimed the lives of more than 200 people, were carried out by members of Achimez Gochiyayev's group, who called themselves "Mu- [...]"

[...] Yusuf Krymshamkhalov was responsible for the [lethal] cargo in the group. He met Gochiyayev back in 1997 at a militant camp in the Chechen village of Serzhen-Yurt. Krymshamkhalov, who was born and raised in the Stavropol Territory, had good connections with local law enforcement: one of the employees of the Stavropol prosecutor's office was a distant relative, and an officer of the Kislovodsk GAI (traffic police), Stanislav Lyubichev, was a friend. It was Lyubichev [...]

[...] [the cargo] was met by Achimez Gochiyayev, who registered at the "Altai" hotel using a passport in the name of Laipanov. Then the hexogen was transported in "Gazelle" vans to three addresses—Guryanova Street, Kashirskoye Highway, and Borisovskiye Prudy. On September 9 and 13, 1999, of the three explosions planned by the terrorists, two occurred, claiming the lives of 228 people. Another explosives warehouse in a basement with timers already running was successfully discovered [...]

Ruslan Magayaev, and in March 2000, almost the entire Krymshamkhalov group—namesakes Aslan and Murat Bastanov, Muratbi Bayramukov, Muratbi Tuganbaev, and Achimez Gochiyayev's brother-in-law Taikan Frantsuzov. They were sentenced by the Stavropol Regional Court to prison terms ranging from 9 to 15 years. Gochiyayev, Krymshamkhalov, and Dekkushev hid in the Pankisi Gorge of Georgia. The rest fled to Chechnya.