The presidential representative in the Southern Federal District, Vladimir Yakovlev has no evidence confirming the rumor Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev may be currently somewhere outside Russia. The head of Chechnyaâs State Council, Taus Dzhabrailov on Wednesday said that according to his sources Shamil Basayev was undergoing medical treatment in a European country.
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Yakovlev did not rule out that the bomb attack at Groznyâs Dynamo stadium during Victory Day celebrations on May 9 in which the Chechen president, Akhmat Kadyrov was killed, had been engineered by no other than Shamil Basayev.
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He said the three suspects in the attack detained so far on the charges of complicity in the attack were giving testimonies already.
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Yakovlev said he was certain the three men were the ones who staged the attack. Police Major-General Alu Alkhanov, nominated by the Kadyrov team its candidate in the early Chechen presidential election due on August 29, told Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 15 it was a matter of honor for him to solve this crime. âWe shall certainly take the investigation to the logical end and the organizers and attackers will not escape retribution,â he said. |