The recruiter is one -armed

Brief biography of Ahmed Chataev - the alleged organizer of the attack in Istanbul

On June 28, a terrorist attack occurred at Istanbul airport: 43 people were killed, more than two hundred were injured. Eight people participated in the attack. Those who arranged a terrorist attack do not say the authorities, but, according to the Turkish media, the organizer of the attack on the airport was a native of Chechnya Ahmed Chataev. "Medusa" says what is known about him.

Ahmed Chataev was born on July 4 (or 14 ) 1980 in the village of Vedeno, now this is Chechnya. During the Second Chechen War , he lost his hand above the elbow . In Russia, the Chechens was considered a representative of Doku Umarov in Western Europe and, according to various sources, is accused either of financing terrorists and recruiting militants, or membership in the militants group. Russian security forces have been looking for an alleged action movie since 2003. In the same year, he received refugee status in Austria. According to the newspaper Kommersant, he may have said that he had lost his hand as a result of torture. The publication notes that the nickname Chataev is one -armed.

In 2008, Akhmed Chataev and several more Chechens were detained in the Swedish city of Treleleborg. The police found weapons in the car; Chataev spent more than a year in a local prison.

In January 2010, Ahmed Chataev was detained in Ukrainian Uzhgorod . As the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Yuri Lutsenko said, instructions on the subversive business, as well as photographs of the dead (including as a result of the explosion) were found in his mobile phone. According to Lutsenko, the police doubted the authenticity of Chataev’s documents, including in his document on the status of a refugee issued by Austria.

The European Court forbade the issuance of it to Russia, so the Ukrainians transferred Chataev to Georgia-there he was accused of some crime, perfect in the 2000s. There is no certificate of proceedings on this case.

For some time, Chataev probably spent in a Georgian prison, but then he freed himself, married and remained to live in Georgia. Nevertheless, on May 19, 2011 he was detained on the Bulgarian-Turkish border. The Bulgarian court first decided to give it to Russia, but the appeal instance canceled this decision .

At the end of August 2012, a shootout occurred in Georgia in Georgia near the border with Dagestan between Georgian police officers and militants. On September 8, the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that the wounded Ahmed Chataev was detained in the gorge, he was called one of the members of the militant group. After the wound, Chataev had to amputate the foot. When detaining, Chataev found two F-1 grenades and accused of illegal storage of weapons. At that time, he already had Georgian citizenship. It was reported that he lived in the village of Duisi in the Pankisi Gorge-in this region Umar al-Shishani , one of the leaders of the Islamic State, used to live in this region (was recognized as a terrorist organization and is prohibited in Russia). As a result, Ahmed Chataev was justified .

In April 2015, it became known that Akhmed Chataev left to fight in Syria. According to the source of the "Caucasian node" in power structures, he went to this country in February 2015. In October of the same year, the US Department of Justice included him in the list of terrorists - on suspicion of recruiting members of the IG.

The National Anti -Terrorism Committee of Russia considers Ahmed Chataev the main recruiter of the Islamic State, who is engaged in searching for people for terrorist attacks in Russia and Western Europe. According to the UN, 130 people are subordinate to it. It was reported that at one time he was in the database of Interpol, but now he is not there.