Michail Chkhikvishvili, a Georgian national arrested in Moldova last year, is scheduled to be arraigned in U.S. federal court in Brooklyn, seen in a filing from the Department of Justice.
  • Michail Chkhikvishvili, 21, a Georgian national who was extradited from Moldova, was charged in Brooklyn for soliciting hate crimes and planning a mass casualty attack in NYC. He faces up to 50 years in prison if convicted.
  • As “Commander Butcher” of the Maniac Murder Cult, he used Telegram since July 2022 to incite hate crimes, targeting racial minorities and Jews with bombings and murders.
  • In 2023, he solicited an undercover FBI agent to poison minority and Jewish children in Brooklyn on New Year’s Eve, providing poison and bomb-making instructions. 
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