The Chief directorate for combating organized crime of the Criminal Investigation Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has gathered and transmitted to the Office of the Procurator-General of the Russian Federation materials pointing to the criminal activities of the Russian citizens Ravil Shafievich Gumarov, Rasul Vladimirovich Kudaev, Timur Ravilevich Ishmuratov, Airat Nasimovich Vakhitov, Rustam Salikhyanovich Akhmyarov, Ravil Kamilevich Mingazov, Ruslan Anatolevich Odizhev and Shamil Ravilovich Khazhiev, who agreed, in exchange for material reward, to participate as mercenaries in the armed conflict in the territory of Afghanistan on the side of the Taliban.