Resident of Sleptsovskaya kidnapped in Ingushetia

Today, at 5:30 a.m. in Sleptsovskaya village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, unidentified power agencies kidnapped Makhsud Makhloev. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Lydia Mikhalchenko, editor of the website "Ingushetiyaru.org" with referring to the leader of Ingush opposition Magomed Khazbiev. Law enforcement bodies deny their participation in the incident.

"In the morning Magomed Khazbiev asked to place urgent news to the website that today in the morning in Sleptsovskaya village, Sunzha District, a local resident Makhsud Hamatkhanovich Makhloev, born in 1982, was kidnapped by unidentified power agencies," Ms Mikhalchenko said.

According to Mr Khazbiev, at half past five in the morning, a column of armoured machines, including "Gazels" and Urals", arrived to Makhloev's house. The visitors presented themselves as FSB agents and took Makhsud away. However, now representatives of local FSB and MIA deny their involvement in the kidnapping and say nothing about Makhloev's whereabouts.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent managed to learn from his own sources that the man kidnapped in the morning had been already kidnapped earlier but was released later.

Madina Khadzieva, head of the press service of the MIA of Ingushetia, has promised to give information on today's incident later.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent could not contact the Department for Ingushetia of the FSB: the telephone number was busy all the time.

"Most often, those persons are kidnapped who had been detained earlier, who was suspected of something and is still 'in sight', or who can be forced to confess of other's crimes. I judge from what people in Ingushetia say. Relatives of those who disappeared without any traces evidence that well their kidnappings, their relatives had been visited by power agents, who made searches, were looking for firearms or accused of extremism. However, as eyewitnesses believe, they had never presented any proofs of one's guilt," Lydia Mikhalchenko said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.