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Here is a passport and ticket to Istanbul
Dagestan action movie told how the FSB helped him leave Russia: Reuters
The Dagestan action movie Saad Sharapudinov told Reuters how the Russian special services shortly before the Sochi Olympics helped him to leave Russia. He was given a new passport with a different name and another date of birth - according to old data, he was wanted in Russia for an explosion. Also, Sharapudinov was given a ticket to Istanbul. He took advantage of the offer and went to fight in Syria.
In March 2016, the “International Crisis Group” presented a report in which she said that the Russian special services helped the radicals to leave Russia - it would be easier for them to ensure security at the Olympics. The Russian authorities deny that such a program existed. Sources claim that the expulsion of the militants turned out to be very effective.
Four years ago, Saad Sharapudinov was an armed action movie. He was wanted on suspicion of involvement in the explosion, for which he was threatened at least eight years of imprisonment. In December 2012, the authorities made him an unexpected proposal.
According to Sharapudinov himself, an official came out of his native Dagestan village of Novosavitli, the militant knew this man since childhood. The official offered an old acquaintance a deal: he would put a weapon, in return, the authorities will allow him to freely go abroad.
Prior to this, Saad Sharapudinov did not even think about leaving illegally - too much risk of getting caught on the border. The militant was thinking about the official’s offer for several months. His mother begged to agree that his son would not spend his whole life on the run. In the end, Saad Sharapudinov made a deal.
The official who acted as an intermediary took the militant to Khasavyurt to meet with a local high -ranking employee of the FSB. Sharapudinov was afraid of deception, so he took a grenade and a pistol to the meeting. But the weapon was not needed: everything went smoothly.
“They said where you want to go, at least in Syria. They said such as “so that the Olympiad to pass without incident”. They did not hide that they were being sent like that, ”recalls Sharapudinov a conversation with an FSB officer.
In September 2013, an FSB officer handed him a new passport at the mineral water airport. The document indicated a little changed name and surname, as well as another date of birth. The militant was handed a ticket to Istanbul. As a result, he went through Turkey to Syria, where he fought on the side of the Islamists.
Later, Sharapudinov left Syria. Where he is now, the article does not say. He gave an interview to Reuters “outside Russia” in December 2015. The history of Sharapudinov was confirmed by the agency and the same Dagestan official (his name is not indicated in the article).
Reuters managed to find five more radicals from the Caucasus , which the Russian authorities helped to leave Russia. Now they either died, or in a Russian prison, or still in Syria.
An officer of the power structures, who took part in negotiations with militants from Novosasius, confirmed that several armed fighters “laid out weapons and left the forest before leaving for Syria. “Once they put up their weapons, the persecution was stopped against them in criminal terms,” he said.