Dagestan resident involved in financing of ISIL gets 4 years in jail
PYATIGORSK. June 21 (Interfax) - The Northern Caucasus District Military Court ruled on Wednesday that Shamil Devletmurzayev is guilty of the financing of the ISIL international terrorist organization that is outlawed in Russia, sentencing him to four years in a standard security penitentiary, the press service of the FSB (Russia's Federal Security Service) regional department for the Stavropol Territory said.
"It has been found that for the purpose of financing terrorist activities, Sh. Devletmurzayev remitted 600,000 rubles to the current accounts controlled by representatives of this international terrorist organization," the FSB department said in a press release.
Devletmurzayev's actions were stopped by the employees of the FSB department for the Stavropol Territory in the interaction with the Stavropol regional departments of Russia's Federal Financial Monitoring Service, or Rosfinmonitoring, Interior Ministry and the Russian Investigative Committee's Main Investigative Directorate for the North Caucasian Federal District. Criminal proceedings were earlier launched against Devletmurzayev under the Russian Criminal Code provision on "abetting terrorist activities".
The defendant admitted the charges brought against him in full during the investigation and actively cooperated with law enforcement authorities, the FSB department said.
The court held the hearing in Rostov-on-Don to find Devletmurzayev guilty of committing the crime and sentence him to four years in a standard security penitentiary.
Devletmurzayev is a resident of Dagestan, the FSB regional press service told Interfax.
