A rebel from the gang led by warlord Khamzat Tazanbayev, who was killed on Tuesday, has been detained in the community of Alkhan-Kala in Chechnya’s Grozny rural district.
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Spokesman for the headquarters for the antiterrorist operation in the North Caucasus Col. Ilya Shabalkin told Interfax on Wednesday that the detainee was charged with a number of serious crimes, including the planting of landmines and armed attacks on local non-combatants and policemen. Active investigative measures are being taken following the elimination of Tazanbayev and two of his accomplices in Ingushetia, he said. Investigators found fake identity cards of Chechen policemen, members of the Chechen presidential security department, and the regional branch of the United Russia party on the guerillas, Shabalkin said. |