Makhachkala resident convicted of financing terrorism

A military court in Rostov-on-Don found Makhachkala resident Gadzhikurban Isupanov guilty of financing a terrorist organization and illegal arms trafficking and sentenced him to 11 years in prison.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced Makhachkala native Gadzhikurban Isupanov (included in the list of terrorists and extremists) to 11 years in prison for financing a terrorist organization, TASS reported, citing a court representative.

According to the investigation and the court, in 2022, the defendant read a publication on a social network by a member of the international terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham*, which operates in Syria, in which it was announced collecting money. "On October 1, 2022, while in Makhachkala, he transferred funds to a member of an international terrorist organization. In accordance with the court's verdict, he was sentenced to 11 years of imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony with the first 3 years to be served in prison," the report says.

In addition to the money transfer, in 2024 the defendant illegally acquired firearms and ammunition, which he kept in the trunk of his car until it was seized by security forces, the court representative said.

As follows from the case card on the court's website, the case was heard since March, and the verdict was handed down on August 20.

As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, in December 2024, the head of Chechnya announced idea to exclude the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham* group, which seized power in Syria, from the list of terrorist organizations, and proposed sending Chechen security forces to the country.

Earlier it became known that natives of Dagestan Magomed-Vali Bulatov and Nariman Nurmagomedov were found guilty of transferring money to this terrorist organization and sentenced to long prison terms.

* the oganization is recognized as terrorist and banned in Russia.

** the activities of the Meta company (which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) are banned in Russia.