MOSCOW, December 5 - RAPSI. The case against Ali Taziyev, who is an alleged leader of the Imarat Kavkaz armed group, has been sent to the court, Prosecutor General's Office spokesperson Marina Gridneva said on Wednesday.

Taziyev has been accused of forming an illegal armed group, armed riots, arms sales, banditism, terrorism, arms production by an organized group, and attempted murder of a law enforcement official.

He was allegedly in charge of developing, planning and controlling the group's terrorist attacks, assaulting citizens, organizing and financing the preparation of these attacks, and selecting recruits.

Members of the group exploded a bus at a railway station in the Stavropol Territory in December 2007. Three people died and 17 were injured. Another bomb blast in the Nazranovsky District in Ingushetia in August 2009 killed 21 and injured 289.

On June 22, 2009, the group also attempted to assassinate Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov (Yevkurov and his bodyguard were injured, another two bodyguards died).
Taziyev was detained in North Ossetia in June 2010.