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| All suspects in murder of 5 Sverdlovsk police in Chechnya arrested |
| 2007-02-07 |
| (Itar-Tass) -- All suspects in an attack on Sverdlovsk policemen in Chechnya in September 2006 are arrested, deputy chief of the Sverdlovsk regional main police department Viktor Berdnikov told journalists on Monday. According to him, the last suspect was detained in Petersburg on December 30. He did not take part in the attack, but financed the bandit raid. Other five suspects, who are members of Karimov’s gang, were detained 15 days after the attack. All six detainees (three were born in 1983, one – in 1986, and another two – in 1987) are Grozny residents, Berdnikov pointed out. The investigation is in progress. Speaking about the motives of the murder of policemen, Berdnikov noted, “Today it is money earning. Those who are interested in hotbeds in Russia pay a certain sum to gunmen for each terrorist act.” “There would be no murder, if not for money,” the senior police officer pointed out. Five policemen from the Sverdlovsk police garrison were killed in a shootout with gunmen in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny on September 21, 2006. This is the second attack on Sverdlovsk policemen in Chechnya. On March 7, 1996, ten Sverdlovsk crack policemen were killed in the Zavodskoy district of Grozny. At present, 300 policemen from the Sverdlovsk region are on mission in Chechnya. |
| Posted by:Fred |