A resident of Karachay-Cherkessia has been accused of attacking a Perm riot police unit in Chechnya.

The Vedensky District Court of the Chechen Republic has begun hearing the criminal case against a resident of Karachay-Cherkessia accused of an armed attack on a convoy of Perm riot police in 2000. The court's website lists a file for Yusup Krymshakhalov, a man with the same name who is serving a life sentence for the Moscow apartment bombings.

As reported by Caucasian Knot, on March 29, 2000, near the village of Dzhani-Vedeno in the Vedensky District of Chechnya, approximately 200 militants attacked a convoy of Perm Region police officers and local commandant's office troops. Thirty-three law enforcement officers and troops were killed, and another 10 Perm Region police officers were captured and subsequently killed. On July 5, 2002, a memorial was unveiled in Perm in memory of fallen security forces and military personnel. [The text appears to be incomplete.] ... The attack killed 43 law enforcement officers and military personnel, and injured 102 others to varying degrees.

A resident of Karachay-Cherkessia has been charged with attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, the statement said.

The statement did not name the accused, but the court's website contains a case file for Yusuf Ibragimovich Krymshakhalov under this charge.

A man with the same full name is serving a life sentence for the terrorist attacks in Moscow – the bombings of apartment buildings on Guryanova Street and Ryazan Highway in the fall of 1999. This is covered in more detail in the "Caucasian Knot" report "Blast Wave: Moscow, Buinaksk, Volgodonsk, and a Rehearsal in Ryazan (1999)".

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that the court sentenced Khafiz Razzakov, a member of the detachment of field commanders Shamil Basayev and Khattab, to life imprisonment, finding him guilty of attacking a convoy of Perm riot police in the Vedensky District of Chechnya in 2000.