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Police successful the Moscow region arrested 2 men suspected of trying to assassinate a erstwhile Chechen and Ingush authoritative who has ties to Chechen person Ramzan Kadyrov’s precocious father.
Russian Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volk said those arrested successful the municipality of Odintsovo included an alleged hitman and the idiosyncratic who hired him. Volk shared a video of masked agents storming an apartment, making astatine slightest 1 apprehension and interrogating a man.
The 2 men were taken successful for questioning astir the Oct. 10 shooting and hospitalization of Sherip Alikhadzhiyev successful the colony of Lapino. Alikhadzhiyev, an taste Chechen, held authorities posts successful Russia’s North Caucasus republics of Chechnya and Ingushetia successful the aboriginal 2000s.
Russian media described Alikhadzhiyev, 58, arsenic a adjacent state of erstwhile Chechen person Akhmat Kadyrov, who was assassinated successful 2004 aft helium switched sides and became a pro-Russian politician.
In 2007, Kadyrov’s lad and successor Ramzan Kadyrov accused Alikhadzhiyev of being suspected of an unspecified transgression portion serving successful the Ingush administration.
Following his hospitalization earlier this month, immoderate Russian quality outlets reported that Alikhadzhiyev serves arsenic an adjutant to State Duma lawmaker Vladimir Shamanov, who aboriginal seemed to contradict the claims.
The state-run quality bureau TASS, citing anonymous instrumentality enforcement sources, claimed Alikhadzhiyev’s alleged shooter was a antecedently convicted Ukrainian national and identified the 2nd fishy arsenic Ingushetia autochthonal Bashir Omarkhodzhayev, who owns a precocious registered operation business.
Alikhadzhiyev was changeable connected the aforesaid time arsenic Kadyrov declared a “blood feud” against 2 State Duma lawmakers and 1 legislator pursuing a deadly shootout extracurricular the Moscow office of Russia’s largest online retailer Wildberries.
It was not instantly wide whether Alikhadzhiyev’s shooting and Kadyrov’s comments were connected.
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