Turpal-Ali Atgeriev was the former Chechen deputy Prime Minister and National Security Minister.
Atgeriev was released from a Moscow prison, after being arrested at Moscow's Vnukovo airport together with Chechen Deputy Prosecutor-General Adam Torkhashev and two officials from the Moscow office of the Chechen Interior Ministry. Atgeriev, whom Nezavisimaya gazeta termed "the last remaining member of the Chechen leadership who is unequivocally loyal to President Aslan Maskhadov," was accused of participating in an attack and hostage-taking in the Dagestan town of Kizlyar in January 1996.
After being re-arrested, Turpal-Ali Atgeriev died mysteriously while in prison on August 18, 2002 from "internal bleeding" that was attributed to leukemia.