Monday, June 27, 2022
Sign-In
|
Sign-Up
|
Contact Us
|
Bookmark
Home
News
Articles
Forum
Search
Directory
Blog
Accounts
Business
|
Politics
|
Technology
|
Entertainment
|
Sport
|
Other
|
All Published News
|
The Chechen-born leader of a Moscow organized crime group was behind the murder of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya
The Chechen-born leader of a Moscow organized crime group was behind the murder of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Russia's prosecutor general said Monday. Politkovskaya, known for her criticism of the Kremlin's policy in Chechnya, was gunned down in an apparent contract killing in an elevator of her apartment bloc on October 7, 2006 in Moscow, at the age of 48. "The crime was solved over a period of 10 months. Ten people, including direct organizers, accomplices and perpetrators of the crime, have been arrested in the case," Yury Chaika said. Chaika said several Federal Security Service (FSB) and Interior Ministry officers had been detained in the case. "Unfortunately, one former and one serving police official, and an officer from the FSB participated in surveillance and intelligence gathering on Politkovskaya," he said. "They have also been arrested," he said. However, a senior police official denied that there were serving policemen among the detainees in the Politkovskaya case. "There is no single serving officer among the group of people detained or arrested so far in the Anna Politkovskaya murder case," Police Major General Yury Karasyov told journalists. The chief prosecutor said the arrested former security officials organized surveillance and gathered information, making them accomplices in the murder. The gang leader who masterminded Politkovskaya's killing was well-known to the journalist, and the two had met, Chaika said. He said the suspect is currently abroad, but declined to name him. "I can't give his name, as the investigation is still underway," he said. Chaika said there was evidence that detainees in the case were also involved in the murder of Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov in July 2004. A U.S. journalist of Russian descent, Klebnikov was the first editor of Forbes Russia, launched in April 2004. He gained an international reputation for investigating murky business dealings and corruption in the post-Soviet era. Klebnikov was killed when leaving his office in central Moscow, at the age of 41. The head of the FSB's internal affairs department, Alexander Kupryazhkin, said on Monday that prosecutors had detained an FSB lieutenant colonel as part of the Politkovskaya murder investigation. The officer was investigated after information about his involvement in money extortion and abuse of office emerged.
Related News
Two policemen and a Chechen gunman suspected of involvement in a series of attacks against police and civilians were killed in a shootout in Chechnya
Athens has joined Moscow in bidding to host the first Youth Summer Olympics in 2010
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has reopened the investigation into the criminal case over the shooting of the last czar's family
MAKS 2007 in Zhukovsky outside Moscow on Friday opens access to all who wants to attend
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos will visit Russia August 29-30
The 12th meeting of a Russia-U.S. regional economic forum involving 11 regions in Russia's Far East and eight U.S. states will be held August 28-30
Russia's resumption of long-distance strategic bomber patrol flights
Group of servicemen ambushed 15 gunmen in a forest in the Nozhai-Yurt district of eastern Chechnya in Russia's North Caucasus
Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that relations between Russia and Armenia have become truly allied
Switzerland's federal court on Thursday "annulled the decision on the early release from prison of Russian citizen Vitaly Kaloyev on August 24"
Two policemen from the Perm Region got injuries in a blast of an unidentified explosive device in Chechnya’s Shali region
Vladimir Putin regards the opening of the regular International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2007
Moscow court has postponed until September 5 a trial in absentia of fugitive oligarch Boris Berezovsky
Tehran is prepared to share information on its controversial nuclear program with the United Nations nuclear watchdog
The Russian and European space agencies will develop a manned transport spaceship for flights to the International Space Station
Four people were admitted to hospital after the successful evacuation of passengers from a Taiwanese jet that burst into flames on landing on a Japanese island Monday
Police have averted a terror act at the central market of the Chechen capital Grozny by defusing a makeshift explosive
Nursultan Nazarbayev said the results of Saturday's parliamentary elections showed the country was pursuing the right policies, and benefited all citizens
Two militants were detained in Chechnya
The OSCE is not planning to set up an additional commission to investigate into the August 6 “rocket” incident
Jul
August 2007
Sep
Mo
Tu
We
Th
Fr
Sa
Su
30
31
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9