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[KavkazUzel] The case of financing terrorism against a native of Kuban, Irina Dudka, was the revenge of the security forces for protesting against the sentence of her sister, who was convicted on a similar charge, and her complaints about the actions of the security forces, Dudka herself said. The person who received the money transfer from Irina Dudka was a witness in criminal cases against Dagestan journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev and Georgy Guev, a native of North Ossetia, who were also accused of financing terrorists.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in December 2021, the court sentenced Olga Petrova, a native of the Krasnodar Territory, to seven years in prison, finding her guilty of financing terrorism. Petrova's sister Irina Dudka told the "Caucasian Knot" that she left Russia because of threats to her life and freedom from the security forces.
Olga Petrova was charged with nine money transfers to Sagid Kazimagomedov, a resident of Dagestan, who, according to investigators, collected money for the militants and later bought air tickets for those who wanted to join the Islamic State militants in Syria. Olga Petrova stated in court that the main witnesses for the prosecution, Sagid Kazimagomedov and Anna Papushina, retracted their initial testimony at the trial .
The sister of the convict is also suspected of financing terrorism
Irina Dudka, who left Russia in 2021, became a suspect in the financing of terrorism, according to the decision to open a criminal case issued on August 5, 2022 by an investigator of the ICR department for the Krasnodar Territory.
According to the document, a copy of which is at the disposal of the "Caucasian Knot", the reason for initiating a case under Part 1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation was the information of the FSB and the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Krasnodar Territory. "In an unspecified period of time, but no later than December 18, 2016, Irina Dudka, who professes the ideas of radical Islam, had a criminal intent to finance terrorism," the resolution says.
According to the investigation, Irina Dudka, "realizing the criminal nature of her intentions and being a supporter of the terrorist organization Islamic State, as well as professing Islamic extremism of the Wahhabi persuasion," met Nurpasha Bekbolatov online, who was raising money to finance ISIS.
The ruling states that on December 18, 2016, Dudka transferred 11,700 rubles to Bekbolatov, knowing that the money was intended for the purchase of air tickets for people wishing to join the terrorists in Syria.
Irina Dudka considered the version of the investigation unfounded
Irina Dudka herself denies her involvement in any radical ideologies and groups. “How could they even draw conclusions about my ideology and intentions, based on the translation of a person who sold tickets to hundreds of Muslims, and this was his main activity, which is what he still does? He even has the call sign “Pasha Aeroflot,” as he said I was the FSB investigator himself during interrogation. I could not be a financier of terrorism, I never had such goals. I am an ardent opponent of terrorism and have never supported any terrorist groups either financially or morally," she told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
The woman explained that she really transferred the amount of money to Nurpasha Bekbolatov in December 2016, returning the money that her husband borrowed from Bekbolatov to buy tickets from Russia to Egypt.
"At the beginning of 2016, Bekbolatov lived in Egypt and was engaged in the sale of air tickets, money transfers from Egypt to Russia and vice versa, earned money by lending at interest and advertising his services via the Internet on Egyptian sites, on VKontakte, in WhatsApp information groups "Buy-sell. My husband was in Egypt at that moment, and my son and I were in Russia. My husband wanted my son and I to come, but we did not have money for tickets. Seeing Nurpashi Bekbolatov's announcement about that he lends money at interest, the husband turned to him for this service," she said.
According to Irina Dudka, at the beginning of 2016, Bekbolatov transferred a little more than 14 thousand rubles to her Sberbank card, and in March 2016 she bought tickets and flew with her son to Egypt.
"We were able to repay the debt only in December 2016, and even then not the full amount. I transferred the amount of 11,700 rubles to Bekbolatov’s card as a debt in December 2016, since we didn’t have any more, which we informed Bekbolatov about and asked deferred payment, which he rudely refused us. After that, we had a big fight with him and didn’t communicate anymore," said Irina Dudka.
This transfer to Bekbolatov became a formal basis for initiating a case, she believes. "They opened a case on the transfer of Nurpasha Bekbolatov, he is the main witness in the case. They wrote that the transfer was made in 2016, but in fact it was a refund of the amount. My transfer to him was the return, the return of the debt.
"They didn't reflect Bekbolatov in my address in the criminal case. That is, in fact, if they are talking about an article about sponsorship, then I returned the money to him, and not all of it. Thus, the investigation simply invented a criminal case against me - as they say for that I complained about them and defended my sister's innocence," said Irina Dudka.
She explained that in the presence of a lawyer during a search in her parents' house, the security forces "plainly" stated that a criminal case had been initiated because "there was no need to complain."
"I was threatened during interrogation that if I did not write against my sister, they would also put me in jail, and they talked about Nurpash Bekbolatov. After, in 2021, I was registered for practicing Islam, an operative from the criminal investigation called me, shouted me, and I realized that everything was going to this [criminal case], so I left, being forced to leave my elderly mother and home. The answer to my complaints about the threats came in such a way that I turned to the place where I was interrogated, that is, to the FSB, group "K", the 10th department, namely the FSB operative […], who also threatened me. The materials say that a criminal case was initiated on their report," Dudka said.
Bekbolatov, according to her, "lives freely in Istanbul and, as before, continues to sell air tickets." Information about Bekbolatov's residence in Istanbul and that he sells tickets via Instagram** was also confirmed to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by other sources.
Bekbolatov appears as prosecution witness in three terrorist financing cases
A witness named Bekbolatov also appears in the case of Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, editor of the Dagestani newspaper Chernovik, Abubakar Rizvanov, head of the Ansar charity foundation, and Kemal Tambiev, who have been in custody since June 2019 on charges of financing terrorism.
Investigators believe that Gadzhiev, Rizvanov and Tambiev collected 68 million rubles and 200 thousand dollars for the terrorists under the pretext of building mosques and helping poor Muslims. The investigation connects the defendants with Israil Akhmednabiev, a Dagestan preacher and founder of the Mukhadzhirun Islamic Foundation, known as Abu Umar Sasitlinsky, who has been put on the wanted list in a terrorism case. The defendants plead not guilty.
The details of Gadzhiev's case are collected in the material of the "Caucasian Knot" "Golunov number two": the main thing about the case of Abdulmumin Gadzhiev."
In January 2023, Hajiyev's lawyer Arsen Shabanov stated in court that in August 2019, a lawyer's protocol of interrogation of witness Bekbolatov, a man to whom, according to investigators, Abdulmumin Gadzhiev transferred money for the purchase of air tickets, was announced. "This happened repeatedly, and there were cases when Abdulmumin paid him off later: that is, he received tickets on credit , flew them, and then paid. The tickets themselves were attached to the case," the lawyer said.
The interrogation referred to by Gadzhiev's lawyer took place at a court hearing in the case of Georgy Guev, a native of North Ossetia, who was also accused of financing terrorism.
Guev's defense then drew attention to the fact that at about the same time as Guev, at least 10-12 people were detained, who are also charged with financing terrorism. "In at least one case, the case of Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, there is the same witness for the prosecution as in the case of Guev - a certain Bekbolatov, who has already been convicted for paying the way for several people who left to fight in Syria. It is clear that in the colony one person can put pressure on him to give the necessary evidence," the lawyer said in court.
It should be noted that Anna Papushina, who testified against sister Irina Dudka, and subsequently refused to testify, saying that they were given under pressure from the investigation, was also a witness for the prosecution in the Guev case. Taking into account her testimony, the court in November 2020 sentenced Guev to six years in a penal colony. The appeals court later upheld the verdict.
Anna Papushina also appears in the case of Gadzhiev , Rizvanov and Tambiev as a witness for the prosecution. She "is in places of deprivation of liberty in the Far North," the state prosecutor in the Gadzhiev case said in October 2021 in court.
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[KavkazUzel] A court in Rostov-on-Don has convicted Zamir Muradov, a native of Stavropol, on charges of participating in the international terrorist organization Islamic State* banned in the Russian Federation.
The case was decided by the Southern District Military Court.
"It has been established that Muradov, while serving his sentence in a correctional institution in the Stavropol Territory, decided to take part in the activities of the IG * and took an oath of allegiance to its leader. He recorded the oath taking on his phone," the release published on the website of the court says.
In 2019, Zamir Muradov was convicted of robbery by the Zarechensky District Court of Tula, he was sentenced to 11 years in a strict regime colony, Interfax informs.
The military court issued a verdict under part 2 of article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization). For the totality of crimes, Zamir Muradov was sentenced to 14 years in a special regime colony.
It should be noted that according to the article imputed to Muradov - participation in the activities of an organization that, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, is recognized as a terrorist organization - the punishment is imprisonment for a term of ten to twenty years with a fine of up to five hundred thousand rubles or in the amount of wages or other the income of the convict for a period of up to three years or without it.
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[KavkazUzel] A court in Khasavyurt found local resident Zalimkhan Pashpashev guilty of not informing his acquaintance of his intention to go to Syria and sentenced him to a fine of 20,000 rubles.
Zalimkhan Pashpashev, a resident of Khasavyurt, was found guilty of not informing about an acquaintance who decided to join the Salafi group fighting in Syria, Kavkaz.Realii reported today.
According to the investigation and the court, Pashpashev, an employee of the reinforced concrete products plant, while at work, learned that his friend was going to leave for Syria to participate in hostilities. An acquaintance offered Pashpashev a ride to the border with Georgia, but he refused. After the conversation, Pashpashev did not inform law enforcement about the intentions of his acquaintance, the court decision states.
The court took into account as mitigating circumstances the presence of Pashpashev's two young children and sentenced him to a fine of 20 thousand rubles, according to the decision published on the website of the Khasavyurt city court.
[The Nation (Pak)] Islamabad police on Monday arrested PTI Chairman Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders... ’s nephew and focal person Hassan Khan Niazi from outside the Judicial Complex for allegedly attacking law enforcement personnel and causing chaos in the capital city on March 18.
Hassan Niazi was arrested from G-11 near Judicial Complex. Hassan was present with other PTI workers when Imran Khan appeared before court at judicial complex on Saturday.
Hours-long festivities were reported between PTI workers and the capital police on Saturday when former prime minister Imran Khan arrived at the Federal Judicial Complex to attend a hearing in the Toshakhana case.
During the violent mostly peaceful confrontation, a contingent of law enforcers and PTI supporters used anti-riot gear against each other. Teargas was used to push the PTI supporters back. Several vehicles were torched by PTI supporters. According to FIR, windowpanes were smashed, and main gate of Judicial Complex was broken.
It further said that police arrested the suspects involved in damaging different structures of Judicial Complex and stones were pelted on law enforcers. Police said two cars, seven cycle of violences were torched, besides official vehicles of SHO Golra Sharif.
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[An Nahar] Depositors and activist muppets protested Friday in front of the Central Bank in Beirut's Hamra street. They burned tires and tried to smash the windows of some banks in the area.
This week has been one of the craziest in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... after the black market dollar exchange rate hit the LBP 143,000 mark at the beginning of the week prompting protests that did not stop even after the pound regained some of its value after a Central Bank statement.
On Tuesday protesters closed down major roads in parts of the country.
On Wednesday, Lebanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters, mainly retired soldiers, who tried to break through the fence leading to the government headquarters in downtown Beirut.
On Thursday, families of the Beirut port blast victims rallied in front of the Justice Palace to protest the obstruction of the probe.
Also on Thursday a visiting delegation of the International Monetary Fund said that Lebanon is "at a very dangerous moment", criticizing slow progress on reforms needed to unlock billions in loans.
The small nation is in the grips of the worst economic and financial crisis in its modern history rooted in decades of corruption and mismanagement by a political class that has ruled the country since the end of the 1975-90 civil war.
In late 2019, Lebanese banks imposed informal capital controls, restricting cash withdrawals from accounts to avoid folding amid currency shortages. People with dollar accounts could only to withdraw small sums in Lebanese pounds, at an exchange rate far lower than that of the black market.
This effectively evaporated the savings of many across the country. Angry depositors resorted to armed bank heists, demanding their own money. Others have filed lawsuits from abroad to retrieve their money in hard currency.
Last month, Lebanese commercial banks went on an open-ended strike and angry protesters erupted into the streets, smashing windows and setting tires on fire outside two of the country’s biggest banks in Badaro.
The banks reopened their doors in late February following caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s request to do so for people to retrieve their salaries.
In march, the banks shuttered doors again to customers but reopened again on Wednesday.
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[NPASYRIA] Militants of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested on Thursday at midnight a holy man under the pretext of incitement in a city in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria.
A local source from the city of Abu Kamal in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor said, "A patrol of the IRGC arrested Omar al-Maddah, a holy man of al-Fateh mosque, in the countryside of Abu Kamal for inciting prayers to not be dragged into Shiism."
The source added that al-Maddah, who hails from al-Boleel in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, has been living with his family in Abu Kamal for years.
Dozens of residents of the city protested on Friday in front of the IRGC headquarters and demanded the release of al-Maddah; however, the IRGC turbans threatened with killing in case protests continued, forcing the protesters to return to their houses, according to the source.
The source went further saying that Dar al-Fatwa of the IRGC, two days ago, issued a list for religious sermons on Friday to be given in mosques in Deir ez-Zor and forced imams to adhered to.
Since the eruption of the events in Syria in 2011, Iran ...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence... has officially announced its support to the Syrian government and sent military consultants to support government forces in their war against factions of the Syrian opposition.
The Iranian-backed militias and government forces control vast areas of the Syrian Badia (Desert) and Deir ez-Zor.
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[REGNUM] In Aleppo, militants tried to break into the territory controlled by government forces
Terrorists from the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) tried to break into the territory controlled by government troops in the province of Aleppo. This was announced on March 24 at a briefing by the deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria, Rear Admiral Oleg Gurinov.
“In the area of the settlement of Urum es-Sughra in the province of Aleppo, militants of the Hayat Tahrir ash-Sham terrorist group (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) attempted to break into the territory controlled by the Syrian government forces,” Gurinov said .
As Gurinov clarified, one Syrian military was killed and six wounded in repulsing the militant attack. Government troops eliminated nine militants. According to Gurinov, no terrorist attacks were recorded in the Idlib de-escalation zone for 24 hours.
The Syrian Ministry of Defense has announced that the Syrian Armed Forces repelled a major attack launched by a group of al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front on army positions in the western countryside of Aleppo.
The attack was launched in the Kafr Amma area, east of Atarib, taking advantage of the iftar time.
The ministry stated that the group suffered heavy losses in personnel and equipment and that 11 bandidosbandidos murderous Moslems were eliminated, including the group's leader and large numbers of them were maimed.
Additionally, five bodies of those killed, including foreign nationals, were withdrawn, and their weapons and equipment were seized.
Al-Nusra Front, also known as Jabhat al-Nusra or Jabhat Fateh al-Sham ...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant, now something else... , was a jihadist turban group in Syria during the Syrian Civil War. The group was formed in January 2012 as a branch of al-Qaeda in Syria to establish an Islamic state in Syria.
Al-Nusra Front quickly became one of the most effective and powerful rebel groups in Syria, gaining support from other Islamist bully boyz and some local communities. The group carried out numerous attacks against the Syrian military and government, as well as against other rebel groups that it deemed to be insufficiently Islamist.
In July 2016, al-Nusra Front announced that it was breaking ties with al-Qaeda and renaming itself Jabhat Fateh al-Sham. The group stated that it was doing so to distance itself from al-Qaeda's global jihadist agenda and better integrate itself into the Syrian opposition. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... the move was seen by some analysts as a tactical maneuver to avoid being targeted by international Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s that were being carried out against al-Qaeda-affiliated groups in Syria.
In January 2017, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham merged with several other Syrian rebel groups to form Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... , which continued to operate as a jihadist turban group in Syria. The group was designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, Russia, and several other countries.
A US military base was attacked in northeastern Syria. This was announced on March 24 during a briefing by Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder.
According to the Pentagon, a rocket attack with ten missiles was launched at 08:05 Moscow time on coalition forces in the Green Village area in northeast Syria.
“The attack did not result in injuries and casualties among our personnel and the personnel of our coalition partners. It also did not lead to damage to equipment and structures, ” Ryder specified.
A Pentagon spokesman added that one of the missiles fell five kilometers from the location of American forces.
Thus, a new attack on the American military base followed 5.5 hours after the attack by the US Armed Forces, undertaken in response to the shelling of the US base near the city of Hasek.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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