Mekhidi Timerbulatov

According to the investigation's version, "being a convinced opponent of the federal authorities and administration of the Chechen Republic", on the instructions of an unidentified person named Abdurakhman, from April to 19 June 2001, he created an organised criminal group to "commit acts of terrorism" and kill police officers; he involved in the group his son-in-law Yusup Makhmudov, Timur Akhmatkhanov, and Sultan and Supyan Dzhautkhanov, in respect of whom the case was separated. The group was financed by Abdurakhman, who also provided timers, electric detonators, TNT pellets, a recipe for making explosives, and a scheme for assembling and installing explosive devices. According to the investigation, in April-May 2001, Abdurakhman proposed to Timerbulatov to commit a terrorist attack in Gudermes, using three cars filled with explosives. Timerbulatov allegedly agreed. One of the cars belonged to Timerbulatov, and Abdurakhman paid him 6,000 roubles for its use in the attack, and also gave him 10,000 roubles to buy two more cars and 3,000 roubles for travelling expenses. Timerbulatov, in turn, instructed Makhmudov and Sultan Dzhautkhanov to purchase the remaining two cars at the market in the village of Kurchaloy. Having done so, they drove the cars they had bought without documents to Gudermes, where they put them in a storage in the yard of Timerbulatov's mother's house. In June 2001, on Abdurakhman's instructions, Timerbulatov bought 12 plastic containers and 6 kilograms of powdered paint "serebryonka" for making explosive devices at a market in Gudermes. He also kept these items at his mother's place of residence in Gudermes. Later, Abdurakhman told him to buy saltpeter for the same purpose, to which Timerbulatov offered to use saltpeter already stored in bags in his mother's vegetable garden. After acquiring all the necessary components, on 15 June 2001, Timerbulatov received from Abdurakhman a recipe for making an explosive based on saltpeter, a scheme for assembling an explosive device, a scheme for installing cars in the centre of Gudermes, 5 timers, 5 detonators and 5 TNT checkers. Timerbulatov stored all these items in a garage also near his mother's house. The next day, 16 June 2001, Timerbulatov, "by making personal rounds" of the centre of Gudermes, identified the places where he planned to place the explosives-filled cars. On 17 June 2001, Mahmudov and Supyan Dzhautkhanov, on Timerbulatov's instructions, took money from him and bought two car batteries, which they installed on the cars they had purchased earlier and made sure they were in working order. On 18 June 2001, on Timerbulatov's instructions, Makhmudov and the two Dzhautkhanovs arrived at his mother's house. Akhmatkhanov was also there. Timerbulatov suggested to all those present that they should carry out a terrorist attack in Gudermes on 19 June 2001 using explosive-laden cars, and all agreed. On the morning of 19 June Timerbulatov brought all the ingredients to an empty house near his mother's house and made improvised explosive devices. In doing so, he used "two 122 mm artillery shells" stored near the house, as stated in the verdict. At around 11-12 p.m., on his instructions, the other members of the criminal group arrived there. Together they drove into the centre of Gudermes, and Timerbulatov showed them places to set up three vehicles with explosives. The first car was to be placed by Supyan Dzhautkhanov near the Gudermes District Court, the second by Akhmatkhanov in a car park near the police post "Rubezh" and the building of the extra-departmental guard of the Gudermes ROVD, and the third by Makhmudov near the buildings of the prosecutor's office and the administration of the Gudermes district. When they returned to Timerbulatov's mother's house after the reconnaissance, they allegedly placed three containers of explosives with two detonators in the first car, five containers with two detonators in the second, and four containers with one detonator in the third. Timerbulatov then set timers on all the devices for 15 hours. Supyan Dzhautkhanov, Akhmatkhanov and Makhmudov then travelled in their respective cars to the previously determined locations. During the journey, the boot opened in Makhmudov's car, and when he stopped to close it, he set the timer to 16 hours in order to have time to spare for this forced stop. At the same time, Sultan Dzhautkhanov travelled in another car to the Gudermes military enlistment office, where he was to pick up Akhmatkhanov, Makhmudov and Supyan Dzhautkhanov after they had placed their cars in the places where the terrorist attacks had been carried out. Timerbulatov went to his home, "where he waited to commit explosions". At 15:00 with an interval of 5-10 minutes there were explosions of two improvised explosive devices in a car near the post "Rubezh", in the immediate vicinity of the building of the Gudermes ROVD. At 15:10 there was a car explosion near the Gudermes District Court. At 15:30, a third car was found near the neighbouring buildings of the administration and prosecutor's office. The explosive device in it was defused at 15:50, i.e. 10 minutes before the detonation. As a result of all the explosions, three people were killed and 45 were injured of varying degrees of severity. There was also significant material damage to seven citizens and the judicial department of the RF Supreme Court in the Chechen Republic totalling 225,221 roubles.