17:47, 25 June 2026

An Ingushetia resident was convicted of concealing information about terrorists.

The Nazran District Court fined 32-year-old Adam Kotiev 25,000 rubles for failing to report the involvement of acquaintances who attacked a traffic police post on the border between Ingushetia and North Ossetia in the spring of 2023 in a terrorist organization.

As reported by Kavkazsky Uzel, 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 knew of their plans to assassinate security forces.

On March 28, 2023, an attack occurred on a traffic police post on the border between Ingushetia and North Ossetia. Six residents of Ingushetia were placed on the wanted list. 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 became known that security forces had detained a fourth attacker, 24-year-old Mikail Moshkhoev. Details of the series of incidents in Ingushetia are collected in the "Caucasian Knot" report "Activation of the Armed Underground in Ingushetia in Spring 2023".

According to the investigation and the court, in March 2023, Eldiev, while in a parked car belonging to Mikhail Moshkhoev, told Kotiev that he and Moshkhoev had sworn an oath 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 press service of the Ingush courts reported today on Telegram.

Despite this, Kotiev failed to report the crimes of Eldiev and Moshkhoev to law enforcement agencies, although he had the opportunity to do so. do.

The case of failure to report a crime was considered 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. The hearing was postponed six times due to "failure to deliver the defendant."

The "Caucasian Knot" also reported that in February 2026, the Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Magomed Kottoyev, a native of Malgobek and a relative of Movsar Kottoyev, to 14 years in a maximum-security penal colony, finding him an accomplice to those involved in the attack on the traffic police post on the border of Ingushetia and North Ossetia.

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Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/424401