Two Ingushetia residents have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms in a case involving the preparation of sabotage.

Ingush residents Akhmed Sakalov and Mukhammad Tumgoyev were sentenced to 13 and 12 years in prison, respectively, on charges of preparing sabotage and illegal trafficking of explosive devices.

"Caucasian Knot" reported that in October 2025, the Supreme Court of Ingushetia sentenced local resident Akhmed Sakalov to 10 years in prison, finding him guilty of preparing sabotage at a fuel and energy facility and illegal possession of explosive devices.

The appellate panel of the court of general jurisdiction sentenced the two Ingush residents to lengthy prison terms, agreeing with the lower court's findings regarding their involvement in preparing sabotage and illegal trafficking of explosive devices.

One of the convicted men, born in 1994, was sentenced to 12 years in a maximum-security penal colony, while the other, born in 1997, was sentenced to 17 years in a maximum-security penal colony. Each was also fined 700,000 rubles, the Ingushetia newspaper reported, citing the republic's FSB department.

The convicted residents of Ingushetia, Mukhammad Tumgoyev and Akhmed Sakalov, were sentenced to 12 and 13 years in prison, respectively, by an appellate ruling, RIA Novosti reports.

The cases of Tumgoyev and Sakalov were submitted to the Supreme Court of Ingushetia for initial consideration on the same day, August 15, 2025, but were heard separately. Both were charged under the same articles of the Criminal Code; the trial court sentenced Sakalov on October 13, and Tumgoyev on October 29. The Ingush court press service, which reported on Sakalov's sentence, did not provide information about Tumgoev's case or sentence.

The appeals of both sentences (Sakalov's was appealed by his defense attorney, Tumgoev's by the prosecutor) were heard by the Third Appellate Court of General Jurisdiction in Sochi. Both sentences were overturned, according to court records. There is no information on the sentence imposed on Tumgoev by the first instance court.

It is noteworthy that only one of the convicted men appears on Rosfinmonitoring's list of terrorists and extremists. The details of 31-year-old Mukhammad Tumgoev, a native of Nazran, were added to the registry on September 23, 2024, almost a year before the start of the trial, according to data from a Telegram bot tracking updates to the list. Akhmed Sakalov's name is not in the registry.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that in 2024, Ingushetia resident Ramazan Ekazhev was arrested in connection with a plot to explode an oil depot. His case is also being heard in the Supreme Court of Ingushetia; in November 2025, the trial was at the pre-trial stage.

Alikhan Khidriev is also involved in the case, but he is only charged with illegal trafficking of explosive devices. Ekazhev, a native of Nazran, was added to the Rosfinmonitoring register of terrorists and extremists on the same day as his fellow countryman Muhammad Tumgoev, September 23, 2024.