INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Moscow court sentenced former Russian senator Rauf Arashukov and his father Raul Arashukov to life in prison for ordering the contract
killing of two men in the North Caucasus republic of Karachayevo-Cherkessia over a decade ago, court authoritiessaid Tuesday.The verdict
His father Raul Arashukov, a former high-ranking Gazprom official, was simultaneously detained along with four other suspects on similar
charges.Investigators said that Rauf Arashukov, 36, and Raul Arashukov, 62, were part of an organized crime network that had been active in
activist Aslan Zhukov was shot dead in the regional capital of Cherkessk in March 2010, while Circassian politician Fral Shebzukhov was
beaten to death two months later.Both father and son pleaded not guilty to the charges
maximum-security penal colony.Three other defendants in the case received between six-and-a-half-22 years in prison on charges of attempting
to cover up the two murders
cases against 14 other alleged members of the same Karachayevo-Cherkessia organized crime network.Arashukov was the youngest senator in
