At trial, witness confirms involvement of Nikolai Karpyuk in warfare in Grozny
In late December 1994, Nikolai Karpyuk led the combat action in "Minutka" Square in Grozny. This was stated by Alexander Malofeev, the main witness in the criminal case against citizens of Ukraine, questioned at the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on October 27, the Supreme Court of Chechnya started the consideration of the criminal case against Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, citizens of Ukraine, accused of involvement in the combat actions in the territory of Chechnya. Today, at the court session, the victim has claimed that he has no financial claims against the defendants.
According to investigators, Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh were members of the UNA-UNSO, founded in the early 1990s and recognized in Russia as an extremist organization. The defendants are accused of leadership and involvement in a criminal grouping, murder, and attempt on two or more people during the first Chechen war. Nikolai Karpyuk has denied his involvement in the conflict in Chechnya and claimed being tortured in the course of the investigation.
Today, at the request of the public prosecutor, the Court has questioned Alexander Malofeev, a citizen of Ukraine, who is involved in the case as the main witness and who on September 29 was sentenced by the Shatoi District Court of Chechnya to 24.5 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony on charges with involvement in the UNA-UNSO and killings of Russian soldiers.
"It is an organization of nationalistic doctrine, aimed at the destruction of Russian nationals," Alexander Malofeev has said. He has told the Court how he joined the organization in the early 90s and how he was trained in special camps, where he studied unarmed combat and small arms.
Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.