NAZRAN. Aug 9 (Interfax-South) - The Ingush Supreme Court has convicted a militant named Issa Gaporkhoyev and sentenced him to 15 years in prison on charges of terrorism.
Gaporkhoyev, 31, was involved in the bombing of a motor convoy near the Ingush village of Galashki in July 2003. He was found guilty of terrorism, murder, illegal possession of arms, explosives and explosive devices and arms trafficking, a court spokesman told Interfax.
"The trial has stated that Gaporkhoyev was a member of an illegal armed group. He used the house in the village of Alkhasty, which he had inherited from his parents to hide militants, supplied a group of militants hiding near the administrative border between Ingushetia and Chechnya with food and, along with other member of the band, planned the terrorist attack against servicemen," the spokesman said.
On July 29, 2003, an explosive device went off on a road when two KamAZ trucks carrying servicemen were driving past the village of Galashki, in the Sunzha district of Ingushetia. Five servicemen were killed by the explosion.