A native of Karachay-Cherkessia was sentenced for money transfers to a militant.

A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Roman Arov, a resident of Stavropol Krai, to 12 years in a maximum-security prison, finding him guilty of financing terrorism.

The Southern District Military Court has been hearing Roman Arov's criminal case since January 2025. Arov was charged with financing terrorism (Part 1.1 of Article 205.1 of the Russian Criminal Code), which carries a prison sentence of eight to fifteen years.

According to the prosecution, Roman Arov, while in the village of Nezhinsky in the Predgorny District of Stavropol Krai, made three money transfers to the account of a member of the banned international terrorist organization Islamic State* in January 2021. The transactions were conducted over several days – on January 27, then on January 30 and 31, the press service of the Southern District Military Court reported on May 27.

Arov, who was previously convicted by the Kislovodsk City Court of Stavropol in a separate case, has been given a combined sentence of 12 years in prison. He is to serve the first five years in prison, and the remainder in a maximum-security penal colony.

The court's press service did not specify the exact amount Arov transferred to the alleged ISIS* member. The statement also did not indicate the article under which he was convicted in Kislovodsk.

According to open sources, Roman Arov lived in Kislovodsk and graduated from the local medical college in 2011. According to the Rosfinmonitoring register of terrorists and extremists, he was born in February 1992 in the village of Pervomayskoye, Malokarachayevsky District, Karachay-Cherkessia.

Arov's data was added to the registry twice: in June 2023, he was listed as an extremist, and in October 2024, his entry was updated with a note about involvement in terrorism, according to posts from a Telegram bot tracking updates to the registry.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported on other sentences handed down by the military court in Rostov-on-Don in cases of terrorist financing. For example, the court sentenced Dagestan resident Albina Magomedova to eight and a half years in prison for transferring more than 818,000 rubles to ISIS* activities. The same sentence was previously sentenced Dagestan resident Khalid Asadulaev for a cryptocurrency transfer.

* The organization is designated as a terrorist organization and is banned in Russia.

** The activities of Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) are banned in Russia.