Akhmed Chatayev

Akhmed Rajapovich Chatayev (born July 1980, Vedeno) is a Chechen Islamic State leader who is thought to have been the planner of the 2016 Istanbul airport attack.

He was born 14 Jul 1980 in Vedeno village, Vedenskiy District, the Republic of Chechnya, Russia.

He participated in the Second Chechen War and lost his arm in the battle.

He then fled Russia in 2001 to Austria where he was granted refugee status in 2003.

In 2008 he and several other Chechens were detained in the Swedish town of Trelleborg. Police found weapons in his car and he spent more than a year spent in a local prison.

On 3 January 2010, he was detained in Uzhhorod in western Ukraine. According to Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, his mobile phone contained instructions for explosives, as well as photographs of those killed in explosions. He faced extradition to Russia but on 14 January, after strong protests by Amnesty International, which claimed he could face torture if he was returned to Russia, the European Court of Human Rights called upon the Ukrainian authorities not to extradite him.

Since the European Court of Human Rights forbade his deportation to Russia, the Ukrainians sent him to Georgia where he was accused of a certain crime committed in the 2000s. For a while he was probably held in Georgian prison but then was freed, got married and stayed in Georgia.

On 19 May 2011, he was detained at the Bulgarian-Turkish border. The Bulgarian court first ruled to extradite him to Russia, but the appellate court reversed the decision.

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