Achemez Gochiyayev is an ethnic Karachay, born in the city of Karachayevsk in the North Caucasus.
10 Facts About Achemez Gochiyayev
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Achemez Gochiyayev had been living in Moscow for more than ten years.
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Achemez Gochiyayev ran a small construction company, Kapstroy 2000 in Moscow and got married in 1996.
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Achemez Gochiyayev rented premises at four locations in Moscow where bombs were found.
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Achemez Gochiyayev claimed that he was framed by an old acquaintance, an FSB officer who asked him to rent basements "as storage facilities" at four locations where bombs were later found.
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The pictures appeared in response to a statement by Alexander Litvinenko that he has a letter from Achemez Gochiyayev denying any ties with Khattab.
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Achemez Gochiyayev was convicted by a military closed court and sentenced to four years in prison.
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Achemez Gochiyayev escaped to Georgia and later probably to Turkey, according to news reports.
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The last time author Yuri Felshtinsky and Litvinenko saw Achemez Gochiyayev was in 2002 to obtain his written statement, in which he admitted having helped to "rent these premises on Guryanov Street, Kashirka, Borisovskie Prudy and Kopotnya".
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In 2010, a writer, Yulia Latynina, speculated that Achemez Gochiyayev might have been hiding in Turkey.