ROSTOV-ON-DON, March 12 (RIA Novosti) - A court in Chechnya has sentenced a Turkish citizen to 23 years in prison for his involvement in terrorism and criminal activities on Russian territory, a local prosecutor's office said Monday.
"The investigation established that Turkish citizen Ali Soitekinoglu underwent special military training in the Pankisi Gorge [Georgia] in the summer of 2001," the press service for the Russian Prosecutor General's office in the South Federal District said. "Later, as part of the Ruslan Gelayev criminal armed formation [killed in 2004], he illegally crossed the Russian border into Chechnya."
It was also established that Soitekinoglu was involved in attacks on people, law enforcement officers and military servicemen of the Russian federal forces, as well as of committing a terrorist act that killed 14 police officers.
