Chechen Militants Sponsored Constantly

Ruslan Gelayev, a Chechen bandit formation leader, received in mid-April USD 900 thousand from Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, an emissary of Maskhadov who is in Pakistan now. This information came from a spokesman for the regional operational staff of the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus. The operational staff spokesman also said that another rebel, Arbi Barayev, received April 22 a big amount of cash from a courier from Azerbaijan. According to the current information, a regular shipment of military and technical equipment is to be delivered from Georgia via Dagestan to Chechnya. Responsibility for the delivery has been placed on Israpilov, Maskhadov's confidential person, who, as a Chechen rebel leadership insider, is in charge of arms deliveries, materiel shipments and the installation of reserves in the mountainous districts northeast of Chechnya's Vedeno region.