19:36, 24 August 2026

An Ingush resident has been sentenced to a long term for assisting terrorists.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don found Ingush resident Bagoudin Akhmetov guilty of aiding participants of an illegal armed formation and sentenced him to 13 years in a strict regime prison.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot", in January 2024, a resident of Sunzha, Khalit Akhmetov, was arrested on suspicion of aiding militants. The investigation believed that he, along with his father, Bagoudin Akhmetov, found housing for the wanted Amirhan Gurazhev and Adam Ozdoev.

After the shooting at the traffic police post on the border of Ingushetia and North Ossetia on the night of March 28, six residents of Ingushetia were put on the wanted list. Later, two of them, Ramazan Eldiev and Movsar Kottoev, were found dead. A counter-terrorist operation regime was introduced, but the wanted individuals managed to escape twice after shootouts, and the security forces suffered losses both times. On April 7, one of the wanted, Amir Bokov, surrendered to the police, and the next day it became known about the detention of Mikail Moshkhoev. Amirhan Gurazhev and Adam Ozdoev remained on the wanted list. On April 15, the head of Ingushetia reported that during the counter-terrorist operation, four alleged militants were killed and two were detained, without naming them. Thus, there was no official report of the deaths of Gurazhev and Ozdoev. After Kalimatov's report, repeated appeals from the mothers of Gurazhev and Ozdoev calling for their sons to surrender were published in Ingush Telegram channels.

According to the investigation, in July - August 2023, Akhmetov was in the territory of the Sunzhensky district in Ingushetia, the press service of the Southern District Military Court reported today on its page on "VKontakte".

Knowing that in March 2023, a terrorist illegal armed formation was created and operated in the region, he agreed to assist the activities of the armed group and provided his home for living, where the leader of the formation was hiding.

The court found him guilty of aiding a terrorist organization , aiding participants of the armed formation and sentenced him to 13 years of imprisonment, with the first four years to be served in prison. Akhmetov will serve his sentence in a strict regime colony.

"The sentence has not entered into legal force and may be appealed by the parties in the Military Court of Appeal," the court's press service said in a statement.

Bagoudin Akhmetov is 56 years old, he was born in the village of Muzhichi in the Sunzhensky district, according to the record in the register of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring. According to a bot that tracks updates in this list, Akhmetov's data with a note of involvement in terrorism was added there long before the sentence, on February 29, 2024.

On April 12, 2023, Ramzan Kadyrov reported that Chechen security forces detained a participant in armed attacks on security forces in Ingushetia in the village of Gvardeyskoye in the Nazran district. According to sources in the security structures, the detainee is a resident of the village of Aki-Yurt in the Malgobek district, Ramzan (according to other sources, Ramazan) Babuev, who helped those wanted to hide after the attack on the traffic police post.

On April 14, it became known that Ingush security forces found a grenade with a resident of the village of Aki-Yurt, who is a cousin of the detainee in Chechnya, Ramzan Babuev. An explosive device was found with another resident of the village. According to sources in the security structures, both men were detained.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that on August 17, 2026, the Southern District Military Court found Ingush resident Askhab Batsiev guilty of assisting participants of the same armed formation and sentenced him to 10 years in a strict regime colony.

Translated automatically via OpenAI from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/426051