[Al Arabiya Latest] Interpol issued an arrest warrant for Adam Delimkhanov, a former deputy prime minister of Chechnya, who is wanted in Dubai in connection with the assassination of a former Chechen military commander.Interpol's website listed Delimkhanov as wanted for "crimes against life and health" and said the warrant had been issued by Dubai, one of seven emirates that form the the United Arab Emirates.
The website showed a photograph of Delimkhanov labeled as "wanted."
Dubai police accused Delimkhanov this month of masterminding the murder of Sulim Yamadayev, who was shot dead on March 28 in the car park of a luxury seaside apartment block in Dubai. "Chechen Adam Delimkhanov is the man behind the operation of Selim Yamadayev," head of Dubai police Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim told reporters in Dubai. "The crime ... is 100 percent of Chechen making and it's an operation of settling accounts (among Chechens)," Tamim said.
Police said at the time they were holding two suspects in connection with the killing and would seek an international arrest warrant for four others, including Delimkhanov.
Delimkhanov, a deputy of the State Duma lower house of Russia's parliament since 2007, told the Russian press this month that the accusation was inflammatory and that Dubai police had failed to hold a professional investigation.
Dubai police officials were not immediately available for comment on the arrest warrant.
Russia's constitution bans the extradition of Russian nationals for crimes committed in another country.
The most high-profile case in recent years is that of former KGB agent Andrei Lugovoy. British police issued an arrest warrant for him over the 2006 murder of Alexander Litvinenko but the Russian authorities have refused to send him to London.
Yamadayev was a foe of Kremlin-backed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. Delimkhanov is a close adviser of Kadyrov.