Case against Chechen natives accused of recruiting citizen of Lithuania for terror act sent to court

The General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation has sent to the court the criminal case initiated against the natives of Chechnya Apti and Aisha (Aishat) Magmadov, accused of recruiting the citizen of Lithuania Egle Kusaite for committing a terror act in Russia.

According to investigators, in 2009 Magmadov voluntarily joined an illegal armed formation (IAF), located in the territory of the Chechen Republic and included into the "Imarat Kavkaz". Its leaders entrusted Magmadov with the mission to recruit women, who practice Islam, and conduct their further ideological and religious training towards committing terror acts.

Egle Kusaite herself told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent during a meeting in Vilnius that she had given her confessions in exchange of the promises to keep alive her friends who live near Moscow - the Chechens Aishat and Apti Magmadov. According to her story, policemen beat her at detention, and later tried to poison her in the isolation cell.

The mother of the accused Apti and Aishat Magmadov is convinced of innocence of her children; while according to Oksana Chelysheva, deputy director of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, the cases of Aishat and Apti Magmadov, arrested near Moscow, of Egle Kusaite, suspected of terrorism in Lithuania, and of the Chechen family of Gataev, who are now in Finland, were artificially connected together in order to cause international resonance.