[KavkazUzel] 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 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 post on a social network by a member of the international terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...operating in Syria, which announced a fundraising drive. "On October 1, 2022, while in Makhachkala, he transferred funds to a member of the 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 file 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 voiced the idea of ​​excluding the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham* group, which seized power in Syria, from the list of terrorist organizations, and proposed sending Chechen security forces to that 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.