Suspect in Yamadayev murder to be named next week - Dubai police
03/04/2009 11:45 ABU DHABI, April 3 (RIA Novosti) - Dubai's police chief has promised to name the main suspect in the murder of former Chechen military commander Sulim Yamadayev as early as next week.
"The investigation into the murder of Sulim Yamadayev is coming to an end. The name of the person who committed this crime will be announced next week after the probe is wrapped up," Lt. Gen. Dhahi Khalfan Tamim said in an interview with the Al Bayan newspaper published on Friday.
Yamadayev, 35, a Hero of Russia who commanded the elite Vostok battalion in Chechnya, was shot early on Saturday by a lone gunman in the underground parking lot of the Dubai apartment building where he lived.
Another Abu Dhabi-based newspaper, the National, reported that a main suspect in the murder was detained in one of the United Arab Emirates, of which Dubai is one. Dubai police sources called the arrest "a breakthrough in the investigation," but refused to reveal the nationality and the name of the suspect.
Dubai police had previously released everyone detained in connection with the murder, except a Russian businessman from St. Petersburg, who may have been involved in other "unrelated crimes."
Yamadayev was officially dismissed as Vostok commander last August over alleged involvement in the 1998 abduction and murder of a Chechen businessman. The battalion, which answered directly to the federal Defense Ministry rather than Chechen authorities, has since been disbanded.
The killing of Yamadayev is the sixth in a series of killings of Chechens in the past year.
Sulim's brother, Ruslan Yamadayev, a former member of the Russian parliament's lower house, was gunned down in central Moscow last September. He was a prominent opponent of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, who has denied any involvement in the either of the Yamadayev killings.
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