Russian MP in Dubai murder case 'can not be extradited'
27/04/2009 19:40 MOSCOW, April 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will under no circumstances extradite a Chechen MP accused by Dubai police of involvement in the murder of former Vostok military commander Sulim Yamadayev, a senior lawmaker said on Monday.
Adam Delimkhanov has also been put on an Interpol wanted list over his suspected involvement in the assassination of Yamadayev, who was gunned down in a car park near his luxury apartment in Dubai on March 28.
"A Russian citizen cannot be extradited to a foreign country for court proceedings. This is written in the Constitution of our country," Pavel Krasheninnikov, who heads the lower house's civil, criminal and administrative law committee, told journalists, adding that it "makes no difference" whether the wanted person is an MP or unemployed.
Delimkhanov, who was elected to parliament last year and has immunity from prosecution in Russia, has denied any involvement in the killing.
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has furiously denied that Delimkhanov was linked to the murder, saying that: "Adam Delimkhanov is my close associate, a friend, a brother and my right hand man."
Sulim Yamadayev served as the commander of Russia's Vostok battalion in Chechnya, but fled the republic last year after a clash between his troops and Kadyrov's guards.
The murder follows a string of assassinations of prominent critics of the Chechen leadership. In September last year, Yamadayev's brother Ruslan was shot dead in his car in central Moscow, and in January Umar Israilov, a former Kadyrov bodyguard, was killed in a Vienna street.
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