Court pronounces verdict against men accused of plotting terror act at mosque of Pyt-Yakh

Today, the Moscow District Military Court has sentenced Abdula Magomedaliev and Rizvan Agashirinov to 20 and 16 years of imprisonment, respectively. The defendants were found guilty of plotting a terror act in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District, purchasing weapons in Dagestan, and a number of other crimes.

According to the Court, Abdula Magomedaliev and Rizvan Agashirinov together with four other members of the criminal grouping organized and plotted a terror act in the town of Pyt-Yakh of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District. On April 25, 2014, they used an improvised explosive device (IED) and trying to commit a terror act against members of the Muslim community of the city. Abdula Magomedaliev was also accused of illegal trafficking of arms and ammunition. Furthermore, the Court found that in May 2014, in Nizhnevartovsk, when policemen tried to check his documents, Abdula Magomedaliev repeatedly shot on them from a pistol. After that, while hiding from chase, he broke into other people's apartment and used weapon to take a family of four persons as hostages, the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation reports.

Today, in Surgut, a panel of three judges of the Moscow District Military Court has recognized Abdula Magomedaliev guilty on all charges mentioned in the indictment and sentenced him to 20 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony with restriction of freedom for a term of two years. Rizvan Agashirinov was sentenced to 16 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony with restriction of freedom for a term of 1.5 years, the press service of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation reports.

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