The court sentenced Alim Begiev, the organizer of the financing of the Islamic State terrorist organization banned in Russia, to 17 years in prison, Yulia Ivanova, a representative of the Investigative Committee's Main Investigative Department in Moscow, told TASS on Friday.
"Begiev was found guilty of committing crimes under part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Russian Criminal Code (participation in the activities of a terrorist organization), part 4 of Article 205.1 of the Russian Criminal Code (organizing the financing of terrorist activities). He was sentenced to 17 years imprisonment in a maximum-security prison," Ivanova said.
Begiev was a member of a banned terrorist organization. In 2015, he returned to Russia and began looking for those willing to provide material assistance to active members of the Islamic State. "In one of the applications, he created a group in which he began to invite proven individuals who agreed to finance the banned terrorist organization in Syria and Iraq. In total, about 30 people joined this community," Ivanova reported.
Begiev collected money on his bank cards and then transferred it to the bank accounts of persons taking part in the combat operations of the illegal armed group. "The organizer spoke with each of the group's participants separately, traveling with them to the village of Kokoshkino in the Moscow region, where they even took the oath of allegiance to the terrorist organization. After initiation the new participants were to financially support the organization, transferring money each month," the representative of the Main Investigation Department said.
As part of the investigation into the case, numerous searches were conducted in Moscow, the Moscow region, the republics of Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria, and 15 people were detained, 12 of whom were previously found guilty and sentenced to long prison terms of up to 12 years, while another is still on the wanted list.
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Based on materials from TASS