Politkovskaya Murder Far from Over
Russian authorities announced yesterday that the investigation into the murder of Anna Politkovskaya is complete. Or at least one leg of it. Three suspects will be charged with being accomplices in the murder: Sergey Khadzhikurbanov, a former detective with the Moscow Department to Combat Organized Crime, and the brothers Makhmudov, Dzhabrail and Ibrahim. All three are Chechens. In addition, to the three, Pavel Ryaguzov, a former senior detective for the Moscow FSB is accused of abusing his position. Ryaguzov provided Politkovskaya’s home address to an old friend, Shamil Buraev. He passed the information to a childhood friend Lom-Ali Gaitukaev, who then gave it to the Makhmudovs, who are his nephews. What a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive.
Ryaguzov claims he didn’t know Politkovskaya’s murder was in the making. As for Gaitukaev, he was convicted earlier this year for the attempted murder of Gennady Korban, a Ukrainian financier ..read more
