Achemez Gochiyayev (born 1970 in Karachaevsk) is a Russian citizen who was accused of organizing the Russian apartment bombings, a series of terrorist acts in 1999 that killed 293 people and led the country into the Second Chechen War.
The five bombings took place during two weeks between September 4 and September 16, 1999, in Moscow, and the southern towns of Buynaksk and Volgodonsk.
Gochiyaev has not been arrested or convicted and ostensibly remains a fugitive, he has not been seen since 2002.