Daud Muradov
Daud Muradov, born 2002, Moscow. Charges: Article 205.1 part 4, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of terrorist activities or its financing); Article 222.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code (Illegal acquisition, transfer, storage, transportation, shipment, or carrying of explosives or…); Article 223.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code (Illegal manufacture of explosives, committed by an organized group); “Daud Muradov’s case”. Status: imprisoned.
In brief
Moscow, Chechnya · Grozny, Moscow · Terrorism cases
Sentence
No information about a verdict.
Charges
- Article 205.1 part 4, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of terrorist activities or its financing
- Article 222.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code — Illegal acquisition, transfer, storage, transportation, shipment, or carrying of explosives or explosive devices committed by an organized group of people
- Article 223.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code — Illegal manufacture of explosives, committed by an organized group
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, in October 2020, while he was in France, Muradov set up a terrorist group in Chechnya, which he directed via Telegram; he planned a terrorist act in Grozny - an explosion in the billiard cafe 'Uyut'. On his instructions, a certain "Said", whose identity investigation failed to establish, purchased the necessary materials and made an improvised explosive device, then hid it "not far from the centre" and informed Muradov about it. Then a certain R. Baisultanov, on behalf of Muradov, took "an explosive device from an unspecified place made by an unidentified person 'Said'" and took it to a rented flat. On 7 November 2020, Baisultanov and another unidentified person "Abu-Khasan" took the homemade bomb and hid it between Ippodromnaya and Tverskaya streets in Grozny. But on the same day, the bomb was discovered by law enforcement officers who were conducting operational search activities. They replaced it with a dummy and set up surveillance of the area. A. Mazanova, who also acted on Muradov's instructions, came there from Kislovodsk, put on the dummy, went to Uyut and was detained there while attempting to detonate herself.
Latest event
December 1, 2025 — removed from the rosfinmonitoring list
Timeline
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for the Chechen Republic
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
Daud Muradov’s case
Criminal case
Daud Muradov’s case
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Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
111020, г. Москва, Лефортовский вал, д. 5, ФКУ СИЗО-2 ГУФСИН России по г. Москве ("Лефортово"), Мурадов Дауд Арбиевич, 2002 г.р.
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Full summary
Born in Chechnya. In 2017 he left with his family to France. Requested political asylum. On 11 December 2020, he was deported from France to Russia. After arriving in Moscow, he was detained and charged with facilitating terrorist activity, after which he was taken into custody.
A few days later, Muradov told a lawyer invited by his relatives that he had been tortured, the lawyer saw marks from torture, which was noted in the logbook. However, the investigator refused to conduct a forensic medical examination, the initiation of a criminal case on illegal actions of law enforcers was also refused.
Muradov said that he collected information about the war in Chechnya and the crimes of the Russian military and disseminated it on social network platforms.
In July 2021, the charges were toughened: Muradov was charged with organising a terrorist attack and manufacturing and storing explosives. In November 2021, he was transferred from Moscow to Chechnya. On 6 February 2022, shortly before the scheduled start of the trial, Muradov died. His body was not released to his relatives.
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