Suspected members of Basayev's unit given long terms
The Southern District Military Court sentenced Nazhmudin Dudiyev and Ibragim Donashev to 24 and 25 years in prison, respectively. They were found guilty of committing a terrorist attack in Chechnya in 2005, which killed 15 people.
 
According to investigators, Dudiyev and Donashev, along with other members of field commander Shamil Basayev's unit, kidnapped and killed a man in the village of Znamenskoye in the Nadterechny District in July 2005. His body was dressed in a Russian military uniform and placed in a car filled with explosives. One of the defendants fired shots to attract the attention of the police and local residents. When the Interior Ministry officers approached the car, an explosion occurred. As a result, 15 people were killed and 36 were injured.
 
The defendants were found guilty under Part 2 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Participation in a gang"), Part 3 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Attempt to commit a terrorist act"), Part 3 of Article 126 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Kidnapping of a person by an organized group"), Article 317 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Attempt on law enforcement officers"), Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Murder"), Part 3 of Article 30, Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Attempt to murder").
 
Four years ago, by the verdict of the Southern District Military Court, Dudiev and Donashev received from 18 to 19 years in a strict regime penal colony for an attack on servicemen of the 6th company of federal troops during the second Russian-Chechen war in 2000.
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