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| An Ingushetia resident was convicted of concealing information about terrorists | |
| 2026-06-26 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited [KAVKAZ-UZEL.EU] The Nazran District Court fined 32-year-old Adam Kotiev 25,000 rubles
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," at the end of 2023, security forces detained Adam Kotiev, a resident of the village of Plievo. Investigators believe he knew the militants who attacked the Volga 24 traffic police post on the border between Ingushetia and North Ossetia in the spring and that he knew of their plans to assassinate security forces. On March 28, 2023, a traffic police post on the border between Ingushetia and North Ossetia was attacked, leading to a search for six Ingush residents. On March 29, one of them, Ramazan Eldiev, was found dead in Karabulak, presumably from wounds sustained during the shootout. Movsar Kottoev's body was found on April 5 in an abandoned house in the village of Aki-Yurt in the Malgobek District. According to preliminary reports, a grenade exploded in his vest. On April 7, 22-year-old Amir Bokov was detained, and the following day, it was reported that security forces had detained a fourth attacker, 24-year-old Mikail Moshkhoev. Details of the series of incidents in Ingushetia are summarized in the Caucasian Knot report “Intensification of the Armed Underground in Ingushetia in Spring 2023." According to investigators and the court, in March 2023, Eldiev, while parked in a car belonging to Mikhail Moshkhoev, told Kotiev that he and Moshkhoev had sworn allegiance to the leader of the international terrorist organization Islamic State and that Eldiev had conspired with members of the organization to commit crimes in Ingushetia and North Ossetia, the Ingush court press service reported today on its Telegram channel. Despite this, Kotiev did not report the crimes of Eldiev and Moshkhoev to law enforcement agencies, although he had the opportunity to do so. CASE OF FAILURE TO REPORT A CRIME The case was heard under a special procedure. The court found Kotiev guilty and sentenced him to a fine of 25,000 rubles. According to the criminal case file on the court's website, the case was filed for trial on October 2, 2025, and the verdict was handed down on June 4, 2026, with the hearing postponed six times due to "failure to deliver the defendant." The "Caucasian Knot" also reported that in February 2026, the Rostov-on-Don Military Court sentenced Magomed Kottoyev, a native of Malgobek and a relative of Movsar Kottoyev, to 14 years in a maximum-security prison colony, finding him an accomplice to those involved in the attack on a traffic police post on the border between Ingushetia and North Ossetia. Related: Malgobek: 2026-05-16 A resident of Ingushetia has been accused of participating in a terrorist organization Malgobek: 2026-02-06 Four residents of Ingushetia have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms in the Caucasus Emirate case Malgobek: 2025-09-09 Justice Ministry finds extremism in imam's words condemning male waiters who serve women | |
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