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| FSB busts Chechen hard boy |
| 2006-05-05 |
| Police in the Tver region in cooperation with the local Federal Security Service (FSB) department exposed and arrested a militant from a criminal group operating in Chechnya, press spokesman for the local FSB unit Vadim Koven told Interfax on Thursday. "The man was an active member of an illegal paramilitary formation set up in 2001 in the Sunzhen district of Chechnya and was probably involved in an attack on policemen in Achkhoi-Martan, in which one policemen was killed," the spokesman said. The militant was handed over to Chechen law enforcement bodies for subsequent investigation, he said. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |