"Kommersant": suspects of preparing explosion in Moscow on New Year Night deal with investigation

The key figurants of the criminal case on preparation of terror acts in Red Square in Moscow during the New Year festivities on January 1, 2011, - the unsuccessful female suicide bomber Zeinab Suyunova and suspected keeper of explosives Timur Akubekov - have signed a pre-trial agreement on cooperation with investigators, the "Kommersant" has written today; however, there is no official confirmation of this information yet.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on December 31, 2010, an explosion occurred in a hotel room in Golovachov Street in Moscow. It killed Zavzhat Daudova, a resident of Dagestan, who, according to investigators, was going to act as a suicide bomber. Later, it became known that the woman killed by an accidentally triggered homemade bomb had an accomplice - Zeinab Suyunova, who also prepared to commit a terror act. After staying for some time with the Abdulkerimovs, Suyunova went to Volgograd, where she was detained by special agents on January 5.

The cases of Zeinab Suyunova and Timur Akubekov were isolated into separate proceedings and have been investigated by the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). Now, Suyunova and Akubekov, who said during the interrogation that they had got into the group of potential terrorists not on their own will, are studying, according to the "Kommersant", the materials of their case files and will soon appear before the Moscow City Court.

Zeinab Suyunova, 24, a resident of the Neftekumsk District, Stavropol Territory, has reported that militants had persuaded her to become a suicide bomber, stating that her husband Anvarbek Amangaziev was killed and she should avenge him by committing the terror act in Moscow. According to the woman, they took away her baby and promised to kill her two-year-old Adilya, if the mother disobeyed the order.

Through Suyunova's evidences, power agents managed to establish and detain other members of the criminal grouping, namely: Ilyas Saidov, who transported ovens with explosives; Shamil Baimambetov, a driver; the manufacturer of bombs Arthur Magomedov, Timur Akubekov and Khairullah Magomedov (four of them were detained on January 29, 2011). All of them were accused of preparing terror acts, banditry, and trafficking and manufacture of arms (Articles 30, 205, 209, 222 and 223 of the Russian Criminal Code).

The 31-year-old businessman Timur Akubekov, who represented in Moscow the Trading House "Kirga" from Makhachkala, said that he hosted his countrymen in his house, who, as he had believed, were traders, and allowed them to leave in his house for several days the boxes with "ovens for saunas", which they used to hide explosives.

The "Kommersant" notes that inspectors are treating - in spite of the concluded deals - the suspects' evidences rather critically. Thus, it was established by the investigation that the mother had herself given her baby to a childless family, asking to take care of the girl in case she died. Now, the baby is under the bodies of trusteeship and guardianship. Amangaziev was arrested for a terror act in Pyatigorsk and failed attempts to trigger bombs in Stavropol and Zheleznovodsk; he will soon appear before the court.

So far, there is no official confirmation of conclusion by Zeinab Suyunova and Timur Akubekov of deals with the investigation; the "Caucasian Knot" has no comments of their relatives and friends.