Kidnapping in Mesker-Yurt and murder in Urus-Martan - two crimes and two hopeless criminal cases

July 17, 2001

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At about nine o'clock in the village of Mesker-Yurt, masked law enforcement officers, who arrived in an armored personnel carrier, took away Im-Eli LomEmievich Saydakhmetov, born in 1982, from their home. Relatives had information that he was taken to a military base in the village of Khankala and was kept there for some time. It is not known what happened to him later.

On the fact of his abduction (Article 126, part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), on August 24, 2001, the district prosecutor's office opened criminal case no. 23200. It was suspended two months later. At the end of 2004, Im-Eli Saidakhmetov was listed as missing.

Relatives also turned to human rights organizations with a request for help in the search. In one of their statements, they describe Im-Eli Saidakhmetov as follows: "... height 165–170 cm, dark hair, brown eyes, a scar on his right eyebrow."


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At about 10 p.m. in Urus-Martan, in the courtyard of his house at 22 Nuradilov St., Sufan Adamovich Dombaev, born in 1958, was shot in the head with a pistol shot. There were two criminals, they were dressed in camouflage uniforms. The prosecutor's office of the Urus-Martan District opened a criminal case on the fact of the murder. Sufan Dombaev is the father of three children. According to relatives, he did not take part in any armed formations that opposed the Russian army and law enforcement agencies.


From the book "People Live Here", Usam Baisaev, Dmitry Grushkin, 2006
 

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