21 November 2007, 10:37
Chechen community of Azerbaijan accuses RF's special agencies of murdering their leader
The Chechen community of Azerbaijan asserts that Russian special agencies are guilty of murdering Imran Gaziev, the community leader.
"Only Russian special agencies were interested in liquidation of Imran, and only they could commit this murder," Ramzan Mollaev, leader of the board of Chechen refugees in Azerbaijan, said at the mourning ceremony.
The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that yesterday, on November 20, the funeral ceremony was held in the building of the Chechen school in Baku of Imran Gaziev, former deputy head of the representative office of the non-recognized Republic of Ichkeria in Azerbaijan, who was killed in the evening on November 19 near his house. The Baku City Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation into this murder under Articles 120 (premeditated murder) and 228 (illegal purchase, sale, storage, transportation or bearing of fire-arms, accessories thereto, ammunition, explosives and explosive devices) of the Criminal Code.
We remind you that the victim had earlier held the position of the first deputy head of the former representative office of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in Azerbaijan. The ChRI's representative office in Baku was closed after the hostage capture by militants at the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre in Moscow.
Author: Zaur Rasulzade, CK correspondent
