Main police directorate for the Southern Federal District has officially confirmed the detention of two suspects in the abduction of Vincent Cochetel, a French national, in Ingushetia. Spokesman for the department Alexander Lukyakhov told Interfax that the suspects were detained during detective and investigative efforts by a North Ossetia-Alania police group and an Interior Ministry mobile force in Ingushetia. "Akhmed Yevloyev, born in 1963 and who has a criminal record, and Liza Muradova, born in 1969, were detained in the town of Karabulak, Ingushetia, as suspects in Cochetel's abduction," Lukyanov said. The investigation has established that after the abduction Cochetel was kept in an apartment rented by Yevloyev and Muradova in the town of Sernovodsk, in Chechnya's Achkhoi-Martan district. The detainees are being interrogated.
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Cochetel, head of an UNHCR office, was abducted in Vladikavkaz in January 1998. He was freed 11 months later in an operation conducted by law-enforcement bodies. |