CHECHEN SUSPECT OF MURDERING RUSSIAN SERVICEMAN DETAINED IN BAKU








MOSCOW, MARCH 11, 2001 /FROM A RIA NOVOSTI CORRESPONDENT/ -- The terrorist who was apprehended in Baku and is believed to be from Shamil Basayev's /Chechen bandit leader/ circle, is suspected of murdering a Russian serviceman in Chechnya last year, reported Russian Interior Ministry's Organised Crime Squad.


	


	According to a staffer of the squad, the rebel Badrudi Murtazayev was involved in the murder of the military, who was serving in Chechnya under the contact and was captured by the militants back in 1996. The staffer added that operatives had managed to get hold of a video-tape recording the tortures and murder of the serviceman. Furthermore, the police ferreted out criminals involved in the murder, which turned out to be members of Basayev's bandit group, with the detainee Murtazayev among them.


	


	The Organised Crime Squad staffers noted that last year the video-tape had been sent to the North Caucasian Prosecutor General's Office, which subsequently instituted proceedings on a criminal case on May 6, 2000 in accordance with article 105 of the Russian Criminal Code /murder/.


	


	The source said that the two detainees - the notorious separatist and human trafficker Ruslan Akhmadov and the suspect Badrudi Murtazayev - had already been extradited from Baku to Russia. At present, investigation and operative and search measures have been taken to find out whether or not they were involved in other crimes.