Kabardino-Balkaria MIA prepared a list of wanted in connection with attack on Nalchik

Yesterday, June 5, the Kabardino-Balkaria MIA published the lists of militants wanted in connection with the attack on Nalchik last October. The list includes Ruslan Odizhev, former prisoner of Guantanamo, and Ruslan Nakhushev, a well-known human rights activist in the republic. The lawyer of the latter has managed to get access to the investigation materials from which he learned that accusation of terrorism is exclusively based on a newspaper publication, reports "Commersant" newspaper.

It is noted in the disseminated official statement of Kabardino-Balkaria MIA that the list includes dangerous criminals wanted "for the organization and execution of a series of terrorist acts in Nalchik on October 13, 2005, which resulted in the death of scores of civilians and officers of law-enforcement agencies, and commission of other serious crimes." As explained by the republic's MIA, the list includes 19 persons suspected of participation in the October attack on Nalchik and 5 members of vakhabit jamaat "Yarmuk" the core of which had been exterminated by the law-enforcement agencies last January and April.

The first in the list is Artur (Mussa) Mukozhev, a 40-year-old leader of the Kabardino-Balkaria jamaat, who previously was not included into the list of wanted in connection with the attack on the Kabardino-Balkaria capital. According to the newspaper sources, his name was included into the list when evidence had been obtained of Mukozhev's involvement into the planning of the militants' action.

The next in the list is Anzor Asremirov (30), another organizer of the attack and the right hand of Mukozhev in jamaat. He is also wanted in connection with the attack on the republic's State Drug Control Department in December 2004. Along with them, the list includes 17 residents of the republic, the oldest is 48 and the youngest is 24 years old. Five of them are residents of the suburban settlement of Khasania, they are suspected of attacking the traffic militia post located at the entrance point to the settlement.

Two more members in the list, including Ruslan Odizhev, former prisoner of Guantanamo, took part, according to the republic's MIA information, in the attack on the base of the republic's riot militia, four - on the shop "Okhotnik" in the Nalchik sleeping district "Strelka," while the others - on the garrison of the Nalchik border guards, Centre on Combating Terrorism and other buildings of law-enforcement agencies. The list of wanted in connection with the attack on Nalchik ends with Ruslan Nakhushev, director of the so-called Institute of Islamic Studies, who was lost in early November last year after the prosecutor's office had initiated a criminal case with regard to Nakhushev on the suspicion of his instigation of terrorism. On November 4, Ruslan Nakhushev was summoned for interrogation to the republic's DFSS. Nobody had seen him after he left the investigating officer. Some time later the prosecutor's office in Nalchik initiated a criminal case under the article "Kidnapping," but the investigation, so far, has not brought any results.

Anuar Dikinov, Nakhushev's lawyer, informed "Commersant" that, through court, he got access to the materials of the case on terrorism and could not find there any evidence of his defendant's unlawful activity. "They only contain an article from the "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" on the basis of which the criminal case against Nakhushev was initiated," he noted. According to the lawyer, both criminal cases (with regard to Ruslan Nakhushev and on the fact of his kidnapping investigated by the DFSS and the prosecutor's office, respectively) have recently been suspended due to failure to locate the persons who must be brought to criminal responsibility. The lawyer does not know on what ground and why his defendant, who is a well-known fighter for the rights of Moslems, has been included into the list of terrorists.

It has also been noted at the Kabardino-Balkaria MIA that the persons who provide any material information on the wanted people will be guaranteed a money reward.

As the "Caucasian Knot" already reported, on October 13, about 250 members of Kabardino-Balkaria jamaat attacked the power authorities of Kabardino-Balkaria, simultaneously targeting 14 objects. In the course of the fight, 92 militants were killed and three more were liquidated later. In the course of a secret operation in the Anzorei village, 37 militiamen and 12 civilians perished. More than 100 people were wounded, 85 of them belonged to law-enforcement agencies. The defence islands of the militants were finally liquidated on October 14.