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01 April 2009 DUBAI: Police yesterday confirmed
that they had detained a suspect in connection with
the shooting of a former Chechen commander.
Sulim Yamadayev, the leader of a powerful clan that
was fighting Chechnya’s pro-Russian President Ramzan
Kadyrov, was shot in an apparent assassination attempt
on Saturday in his building’s parking lot in the
emirate and then died of his wounds, police said.
Lt. Gen. Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, chief of Dubai
police, confirmed that a Russian citizen had been
detained for questioning. “Dubai police have a thread
that may lead to the masterminds of the
assassination,” he said.
Yamadayev was shot on the head and died instantly,
Tamim said, denying reports that he had been injured
and was still alive. One of Yamadayev’s bodyguards was
injured. The attacker then drove off in Yamadayev’s
car.
A source at Dubai police’s mortuary confirmed that
the victim’s body has been handed back to his family.
Yamadayev, who fled to Dubai after his brother Ruslam
was gunned down in Russia, was living in the emirate
under the alias Suleyman Madov.
But Russia’s Kommersant daily said Sulim’s brother,
Isa, told its correspondent that Yamadayev had
regained consciousness in hospital, while his wife
Milena told the newspaper he was alive but in serious
condition.
The same brother, who is in Dubai, also told Vremya
Novostei that although wounded in the head, stomach
and chest, Yamadayev was still alive.
But Russian Consul Sergei Krasnogor told the RIA
Novosti news agency he had been officially informed by
the police chief that Yamadayev was dead. He added
that seven people had already been arrested in Dubai
but this has not been confirmed. |
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