| Submit your comments on this article |
| Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia |
| Gelayev follower captured in Chechnya |
| 2006-04-07 |
| A militant of the gang led by filed commander Ruslan Gelayev was detained in the village of Aksai of Dagestan’s Khasavyurt region. As Itar-Tass learnt at the press service of the Interior Ministry of the republic, the gunman was detained at home. “According to the available information, the 36-year-old Dagestani underwent training in one of the camps of illegal armed groups in the village of Gekalovka in Chechnya under the command of Ruslan Gelayev, the Itar-Tass interlocutor specified. According to the Interior Ministry, “within Gelayev’s gang, the detainee participated in combat actions against federal forces and is a follower of the Islamic extremist trend.” During an examination at the detainee’s house, which was conducted within the framework of a criminal case instituted in March this year according to the article “robbery” of the Russian Criminal Code, a RGD-5 grenade, a projectile for a VOG-25 under-barrel grenade launcher, 55 fire arms cartridges, two submachine-gun magazines, eight grams of marihuana and religious literature were seized. The detainee confessed his participation in illegal armed groups. Investigators are engaged now in checking his involvement in acts of terrorism in Chechnya and Dagestan. Criminal proceedings were instituted against the detainee. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |