Medov spoke about the circumstances of the manufacture of weapons for the terrorist attack in Crocus

Ingush master gunsmith Khusen Medov bought three blank-firing machine guns online and another one in a hunting store. He tested the suitability of the converted machine guns for shooting in the attic of his house. He learned what the weapons were used for from the broadcast from Crocus City Hall.

As "Caucasian Knot" reported, a military court in Moscow extended the arrest of those accused in the case of the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall near Moscow until January 7, including two natives of Ingushetia and four detained in Dagestan. On March 22, 2024, armed men stormed the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, opened fire and set fire to the building. 145 people were killed, and the FSB classified the incident as a terrorist attack. This terrorist attack was the largest in the Moscow region in 30 years. On June 23, it became known that the investigation into the case of 19 people accused of involvement in the terrorist attack was completed, and their case was transferred to the prosecutor's office.

Gunsmiths from Ingushetia Khusen Medov and Khavazh-Bagaudin Aliyev, who illegally manufactured machine guns for the perpetrators of the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk, received 500 thousand for their work, TASS reported, citing criminal case materials.

In his testimony, Medov described the process of learning to convert a blank-firing weapon into a combat weapon, as well as the process of making the weapon itself. After the conversion, he fired several shots in the yard of his house, thereby confirming the suitability of the machine guns for firing live ammunition. After which he stored the manufactured weapon in the attic of his house. For the weapons sold, about 500 thousand rubles were transferred to his mother's card, which she did not know, which he cashed and after some time transferred to Aliyev, follows from his testimony.

The case materials indicate that Medov purchased two blank-firing Kalashnikov assault rifles through the Avito online service, after which he bought another blank-firing assault rifle through the Berkut mobile application. He bought the fourth blank-firing assault rifle in a hunting store in Malgobek. In January 2024, Aliyev approached him with a request to help convert this weapon into a combat weapon, saying that the assault rifles were then planned to be used in criminal conflicts at the Sadovod market in Moscow.

Medov agreed, and together with Aliyev they converted the blank-firing assault rifles into combat ones. Their accomplices transported these weapons to Dagestan through hiding places, and later the accomplices of the terrorist attack's perpetrators delivered them to Moscow. "On March 22, 2024, Medov learned from the news about the terrorist attack that had taken place in the Crocus City Hall concert hall. One of the stories showed the weapon from which the terrorists shot visitors, in which Medov recognized his machine gun, which he sold through a hiding place," Medov's interrogation materials say.

In addition to Dzhabrail Aushev and Khusein Medov, two other natives of Ingushetia are involved in the case - Khavazh-Bagaudin Aliyev and Batyr Kulaev have been declared wanted. The investigation also considers them to be suppliers of weapons for the militants. At the preliminary hearing, representatives of Aushev and Medov reported that they admit involvement in the illegal arms trade, but do not admit involvement in the terrorist attack, since they did not know where and how their weapons would be used, Fortanga noted in a publication on July 31. In December 2024, four more residents of Ingushetia were detained, suspected of aiding the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall.

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After the terrorist attack, Aliyev left Russia and is wanted. Medov is among the defendants in the Crocus attack case. Another native of Ingushetia, Dzhabrail Aushev, is also involved in his episode.