A Tajik national has been sentenced to 14 years in a penal colony in Russia

He was found guilty of aiding the attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue.

The Second Eastern Military Court in Novosibirsk sentenced Tajik citizen Bahodurjon Akhmadaliev, who, according to the investigation, was connected to individuals who attacked the Crocus City Hall concert venue in March 2024.

The court found 21-year-old Bahodurjon Akhmadaliev guilty of “preparing a terrorist act” on the territory of Novosibirsk and “illegal possession of explosive devices,” sentencing him to 14 years in prison. He will serve the first three years in prison and 11 years in a high-security colony.

The sentence has not yet entered into legal force, and the convicted individual intends to appeal the court’s decision.

According to the investigation, Bahodurjon Akhmadaliev worked as a taxi driver and maintained connections with other individuals involved in the case regarding the attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue.

It is reported that Akhmadaliev purchased an online ticket for two suspects in the attack on the Crocus City Hall building. One of these suspects is Dalerjon Mirzoev, who lived in Novosibirsk and worked as a taxi driver.

Law enforcement believes that on March 23 of last year, one day after the incident at the Crocus, with the intent to carry out a terrorist act in a public place in the Railway District of Novosibirsk, Akhmadaliev acquired a homemade explosive device made from a fragmentation grenade. He was transporting the bomb in a taxi to plant it in a public place in the Railway District of Novosibirsk, but was detained by law enforcement, and during a search of the vehicle, the explosive device was seized.

The taxi driver was detained by officers of the regional Federal Security Service, and religious literature of an extremist nature was seized from his home, according to the court’s press release.

Akhmadaliev’s own opinion on this matter has not yet been published in the media, and since Bahodurjon Akhmadaliev and his lawyer disagree with the court’s decision, it is possible that the charges brought by law enforcement officials are also fabricated.