Cops in the Moscow regionarrested 2 males suspected of trying to assassinate a previous Chechen and Ingush official who has ties to Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrovs late father.Russian Interior Ministry spokesperson Irina Volk said those apprehended in the town of Odintsovo included a supposed hitman and the individual who worked with him.Volk shared a video of masked representatives storming a house, making at least one arrest and interrogating a man.The 2 guys were taken in for questioning about the Oct.
10shooting and hospitalization of Sherip Alikhadzhiyev in the town of Lapino.Alikhadzhiyev, an ethnic Chechen, held federal government posts in Russias North Caucasus republics of Chechnya and Ingushetia in the early 2000s.
Russian mediadescribed Alikhadzhiyev, 58, as a close ally of former Chechen leader Akhmat Kadyrov, who was assassinated in 2004 after he changed sides and became a pro-Russian politician.In 2007, Kadyrovs boy and successor Ramzan Kadyrovaccused Alikhadzhiyev of being believed of an undefined crime while serving in the Ingush administration.Following his hospitalization previously this month, some Russian news outlets reported that Alikhadzhiyev acts as an aide to State Duma legislator Vladimir Shamanov, who later seemed to deny the claims.The state-run news company TASS, citing anonymous police sources, claimed Alikhadzhiyevs declared shooter was a previously convicted Ukrainian resident andidentified the second suspect as Ingushetia native Bashir Omarkhodzhayev, who owns a just recently registered construction business.Alikhadzhiyev was shot on the very same day as Kadyrov stated a blood feud versus two State Duma legislators and one senator following a deadly shootout outside the Moscow headquarters of Russias biggest online seller Wildberries.
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