Achemez Gochiyayev

Achemez Gochiyayev
Born1970
Karachaevsk, Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Oblast, RSFSR, Soviet Union (Now Russia)
DisappearedMarch 2002 (aged 31–32)
NationalityNorth Caucasian
Known forRussian authorities claim him to be one of the perpetrators behind the Russian apartment bombings in 1999

Achemez Gochiyayev (born 1970 in Karachayevsk) is a Russian citizen who was accused of organizing the Russian apartment bombings, a series of terrorist acts in 1999[1] that killed 307 people and led the country into the Second Chechen War.[2] The five bombings took place during two weeks between September 4 and September 16, 1999, in Moscow, and the southern towns of Buynaksk and Volgodonsk.[3] Gochiyayev has not been arrested or convicted and ostensibly remains a fugitive;[4] he has not been seen since early March 2002.[5]

  1. ^ Anderson, Scott (31 March 2017). "None Dare Call It a Conspiracy". GQ. Archived from the original on 2017-11-14. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  2. ^ Gochiyayev's wanted page Archived March 18, 2005, at the Wayback Machine on FSB web site.
  3. ^ Only one explosions suspect still free, Kommersant, December 10, 2002.
  4. ^ Interpol link
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