19:46, 31 July 2025

Stavropol resident gets long sentence in case of Basayev's attack on Dagestan

Stavropol resident Rustam Yarbuldyev, who was found by the court to have participated in the attack on the Botlikh district of Dagestan as part of Basayev’s group, was sentenced to 13 years in prison.

As "Caucasian Knot" wrote, in June 2023, the FSB reported the detention of Rustam Yarbuldyev in Stavropol Krai in connection with the attack on the Botlikh district of Dagestan in 1999. In September 2024, the case went to court.

On August 7, 1999, more than a thousand armed fighters from Chechnya under the leadership of Shamil Basayev and Jordanian Amir Khattab entered Dagestan. Fighting continued in the republic for more than a month. Only on September 15, 1999, Russian Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev reported that the territory of Dagestan had been completely liberated, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "Militant Invasion of Dagestan (1999)".

The Southern District Military Court sentenced Stavropol resident Rustam Yarbuldyev in the case of the 1999 attack on military personnel in Dagestan as part of Shamil Basayev's group. He will spend 13 years in a maximum security penal colony, TASS reported today, citing the UFSB for Stavropol Krai.

According to the investigation and the court, "Yarbuldyev, as part of an illegal armed group led by Basayev, participated in an attack on servicemen of the Russian Defense Ministry in the Botlikh District of the Republic of Dagestan in August 1999," the report says.

Yarbuldyev was found guilty of participating in an armed gang (Part 2 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), armed rebellion (Article 279 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), and attempted murder of a serviceman (Article 317 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), Vesti.ru reported.

As follows from the case card on the website of the Southern District Military Court, Yarbuldyev's case was considered from September 2024, 26 hearings took place, the verdict was announced on July 30.

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