In Tatarstan, Ingushetia and Bashkiria detained members of the gang Basayev and Khattab

The FSB, together with the TFR and the interior Ministry detained in Ingushetia, Bashkiria and Tatarstan three more members of the gang Basayev and Khattab. The detainees were involved in attacks on military personnel and law enforcement officers in 1999 and 2000 in Chechnya. All three were sent under arrest, the press service of the TFR reported.

According to the investigation, one of the defendants “took an active part” in the attack on Russian servicemen on October 4, 1999 in Chervlennaya village in the Shelkovo district of Chechnya. Then as a result of shelling by gang members, 15 soldiers were killed, another 28 were injured. The detainee was charged with armed rebellion, participation in a gang and encroachment on the life of servicemen (Part 3 of Art. 279, Part 2 of Art. 209, Art. 317 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

Two more defendants are suspected of participating in the attack on employees of the riot police of the Perm region and soldiers of the commandant company of the Veden district of Chechnya on March 29, 2000 in a mountainous and wooded area south of the village of Jani-Vedeno. In the attack, 43 law enforcement officers and military personnel were killed, 102 people were injured. After the attack, members of the criminal community stole weapons, including 36 Kalashnikov assault rifles, 13 machine guns, three sniper rifles, and an AGS grenade launcher.