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In Yekaterinburg, sentence imposed over a probe into financing terrorism

The evidence gathered by the Main Investigations Directorate over North Caucasian Federal District of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation was found by court to be sufficient to sentence resident of the Surgut, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District-Yugra Narbek Ozganbaev. He was found guilty of committing an offence under Part 1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of Russia (financing terrorism).

The investigation and the court established that between January 2015 and December 2016 Ozganbaev, while in Surgut, was reliably aware of the participation of a resident of the Republic of Dagestan in the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic in the activities of the terrorist organization prohibited in the Russian Federation. Having direct intention to facilitate activities of the indicated organization by its financing, the perpetrator, upon request of the latter, transferred money to bank cards numbers provided by the indicated person.

All circumstances of the committed offense were established in interaction of the Central Apparatus of the Federal Security Service, Tyumen Regional Department of the Federal Security Service and Centre E of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs over the North-Caucasian Federal District.

The Central District Military Court found Ozganbaev guilty of the offences he was charged with and sentenced him to 2 years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony.

The investigative bodies of the Investigative Committee of Russia and Dagestan Republican Department of the Internal Ministry of Russia continue investigation of probes into the resident of the Republic of Dagestan under Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of Russia (participation in the activities of an organization recognized as terrorist under legislation of the Russian Federation) and Part 4 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of Russia (organization of financing terrorism).