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Terrorist Acts

Incident in Moscow

On September 13, 1999, at approximately 5 a.m., Achimez Gochiyayev, Z.A. Batchayev, Denis Saitakov, Kh.M. Abayev, and unidentified persons, using a high-power improvised explosive device with an electric time-delay fuse and an electronic timer, located in a non-residential basement of building No. 6, building 3 on Kashirskoye Highway in Moscow rented by Achimez Gochiyayev, carried out an explosion of this 8-story residential building.

The consequences of this explosion were:
* 124 people died.
* 7 people received injuries of varying degrees of severity.
* Significant material damage was caused to the state and citizens due to the destruction of this building and damage to residential buildings adjacent to the epicenter of the explosion, amounting to at least 131,036,671 (one hundred thirty-one million thirty-six thousand six hundred seventy-one) rubles.

Incident in Volgodonsk

On September 16, 1999, at approximately 6 a.m., Yusuf Krymshamkhalov, Adam Dekkushev, and T.A. Batchayev detonated a high-power improvised explosive device with an electric time-delay fuse and an electronic timer. This device was located in the van of a GAZ-53 vehicle they had purchased, parked at entrance No. 4 of building No. 35 on Oktyabrskoye Highway in Volgodonsk.

The consequences of this explosion were:
* 19 people died.
* 1,045 people received injuries of varying degrees of severity or suffered to one degree or another, receiving moral trauma.
* Significant material damage was caused to the state and citizens due to the destruction and damage to residential buildings adjacent to the epicenter of the explosion, amounting to at least 337,604,000 (three hundred thirty-seven million six hundred four thousand) rubles.

Criminal Charges

By the above actions, Yusuf Krymshamkhalov, as part of an organized group, repeatedly committed terrorism:
* This involved explosions that create a danger of death to people, causing significant property damage and the occurrence of other socially dangerous consequences, in order to violate public safety, intimidate the population, and influence decision-making by authorities.
* This constitutes a crime provided for by Part 3 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

By his actions, expressed in the manufacture under the circumstances set forth above during the preparation of terrorist attacks of more than 14 tons of explosive and explosive devices for its detonation, Yusuf Krymshamkhalov, as part of an organized group, repeatedly committed the illegal manufacture of explosives and explosive devices.
* This constitutes a crime provided for by Part 3 of Article 223 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.