| The Moscow City Prosecutor’s Office has ended an investigation and sent to court a criminal case against five accomplices blamed for assisting terrorists in the Nord-Ost drama and the terrorists who staged an explosion at McDonalds fast food restaurant in the southwest of Moscow last October. A source in the prosecutor’s office told Itar-Tass that Aslanbek Khaskhanov, Aslan Murdalov, Khampash Sobrlaliyev and the Mezhiyev brothers (Alikhan and Akhyad) would stand trial on charges of terrorism and collaboration in the act of hostage taking during the Nord-Ost show. Earlier, the criminal case against the culprits responsible for the McDonalds blast had been separated from the North-Ost case, the source at the prosecutor’s office said. An investigation into a criminal case against the organizers of both terrorist acts continues. Russia declared an international search for Shamil Basayev, Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Khasan Zakayev and Gerikhan Dudayev as the plotters responsible for both acts of terrorism. |