Verdict on case of Moscow metro terror acts to be announced tomorrow

At midday on February 2, the Moscow City Court plans to start announcing of the verdict on the case on the acts of terror in Moscow metro, the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" was told by Igor Trunov, defendants' advocate. The defender said that he was expecting a guilty verdict and awarding payment by his clients of "real sums of damage compensation" to the victims.

The NEWSru.com reminds that three persons are figurants in the case: senior justice adviser Murat Shavaev, ex-employee of Ministry of Justice, and also Maxim Panaryin and Tambij Hubiev, members of the so-called Karachaev Jama'at. According to the investigators' version, they committed the explosion on August 31, 2004, at the entrance of the "Rizhskaya" metro station. The accused group is also incriminated the explosion of the metro train car between the stations "Avtozavodskaya" and "Paveletskaya" on February 6, 2004.

According to the Russian special services, the acts of terrorism were committed by participants of a terrorist group formed and funded by emissaries of international terrorist centres Abu Al-Valid, Abu-Kuteip and Abu Dzeit, who were liquidated later. Six more members of the group involved also in explosions in Kavminvody at public transport stops in Krasnodar were killed.