The Second Western District Military Court sentenced the former head of the Russian Interior Ministry of Dagestan’s Kizlyar district, Gazi Isaev, to life imprisonment in the case of the 2010 Moscow metro terror attacks. On this subject informed Interfax.
The court found Gazi Isaev guilty of two terrorist attacks, participation in a criminal community, banditry and illegal arms trafficking.
Isaev will serve his entire term in a special regime colony. During the debate, the prosecutor asked to sentence the ex-policeman to life imprisonment with the first five years in prison, then in a colony with a special regime.
The silovik was also stripped of the rank of colonel of police and more than 17 million rubles were demanded from him. to the costume of the Moscow metro.
The court rejected the claims of the victims of the terrorist attack and the relatives of the victims, informed RIA News. The victims asked Isaev to recover from 400,000 to 600 million rubles.
The ex-policeman pleaded not guilty and said the evidence in the case against him was tampered with. In the last word before the verdict was announced, Isaev said they wanted to “paint him as the country’s main terrorist” based on “false accusations from so-called witnesses, but in fact the same terrorists”, transmits BFM.ru.
What has the former police chief been accused of?
Isaev was arrested in 2020. According to the Investigative Committee, he was a member of the terrorist organization “Caucasian Emirate” banned in Russia and provided its leaders with information about the work of the Kizlyar police, as well as about special operations against militants.
The investigation also believes that Isaev personally drove one of the suicide bombers with explosives strapped to her to Kizlyar bus station. From there, the woman traveled to Moscow to carry out a terrorist attack.
How writing Kommersant, the charges against Isaev were mainly based on the testimony of former Dagestan activists. They did not directly accuse Isaev, but referred to the words of “comrades in arms, allegedly aware of the shadow activities” of the ex-policeman. These data could not be verified, since the people targeted by indirect witnesses were killed as a result of special operations, notes the newspaper.
A key witness in Isaev’s case, Magomed Nurov, said in court that he had no information about Isaev’s involvement in gangs, but that did not affect the course of the trial.
Explosions at the Moscow metro stations “Lubyanka” and “Park Kultury” occurred on the morning of March 29, 2010. As a result, 40 people died, about a hundred were injured of varying severity.
