02:22, 26 August 2025

Human rights activists report unpunished accident involving Kadyrov's relative

A high-ranking Chechen official, a relative of Ramzan Kadyrov, was the culprit of an accident that killed two people and seriously injured children. The authorities immediately forced the relatives of the victims to reconcile with him.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, in 2018, social media users criticized Ramzan Kadyrov's reaction to the accident in Grozny involving his relative. Kadyrov made it clear that the official would not be punished for the accident with three victims, and a few days after the accident, Kadyrov demanded "to take the most severe measures" against traffic violators. In 2019, an accident in Argun with three fatalities also did not result in any consequences for the culprit, the son of a person close to Kadyrov.

In November 2016, the driver of a Ford drove into the oncoming lane near the Chernorechensky outpost on the Kavkaz highway in Chechnya and crashed into a VAZ-21014, which was thrown into a Priora driving behind during the collision. Seven people died on the spot, and two more were hospitalized. The culprit of the accident was named as the driver of the Ford, Alam Khadzhaev; witnesses reported that he was drunk. Soon after the incident, all the men from his family left their village. Khadzhaev himself died in the accident. In 2019, Chechen television aired a story about Alam Khadzhaev's relatives - in the story, the Khadzhaevs stated that their decision to leave Chechnya was voluntary, and criticized the blogger who called their departure forced.

An accident involving a high-ranking Chechen official occurred in Grozny on July 20, when the car of a relative of Kadyrov crashed from behind into a Lada stopped at a traffic light. A family from the village of Geldagan was in the car; both spouses died in the accident, and their two children were seriously injured.

The deceased were buried the next day by order of the authorities, but already on the day of the accident, the authorities organized a reconciliation between the family of the deceased and the culprit of the accident, the Memorial Human Rights Defense Center (listed by the Russian Ministry of Justice as a foreign agent) reported on August 25, citing sources in Chechnya.

According to human rights activists, the culprit of the accident is a fairly close relative of Ramzan Kadyrov, he heads one of the republican departments and has not been punished. Information about the accident was not published by official media, and no criminal case was opened.

A human rights activist familiar with law enforcement practices in Chechnya notes that these double standards have long been known in the republic: people with connections are not subject to criminal prosecution after incidents, while in other cases “even people who had nothing to do with the incident can be punished.”

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