Kyrgyz police detained four citizens of Chechnya in Bishkek who are suspected of attempted murder against a police officer and illegal possession of firearms. "One of the detainees, an A. Akhtakhanov, was enlisted in illegal armed groups in 2001 when he was an officer of the Chechen Interior Ministry. He used data that he received at work to inform the bandits about the movement of Chechen government top officials," Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev told journalists before his meeting with officials of the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry. Akhtakhanov's messages "were used to arrange ambushes, which led to several top Chechen government officials and officers of the Chechen Interior Ministry being shot on the Kurchaloi-Gudermes transport routes," Nurgaliyev said.