(Itar-Tass) -- Former head of the Chechen Achkhoi-Martan district administration Shamil Burayev has been charged with complicity in the murder of investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya, lawyer Pyotr Kozakov told Itar-Tass. “The Investigation Committee of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has charged Burayev with the murder complicity,” he said.
In the opinion of the investigators, Burayev received information about Politkovskaya’s place of residence from Federal Security Service Lt. Col. Pavel Ryaguzov and passed it to the prospective killers – the Makhmudov brothers. The lawyer thinks that the accusation is notional, and Burayev pleads not guilty. |