A militant involved in kidnapping of an Orthodox priest has been detained in Chechnya, a source in the Republican Ministry of Internal Affairs told Interfax on Saturday. According to the source, a local of the village of Samashki, Achkhoi-Martan district, suspect of involvement in kidnapping of Rev. Sergy Potapov from Assinovskaya stanitsa on 6 May 1999, was detained during a special operation. The detained made a confessionary statement of his involvement in kidnapping of Rev. Sergy and of a businessman from a neighbouring region. The identities of other persons involved in the kidnapping are being established.