Melnikov: GPO spreads Chechen experience of fighting militants' helpers over other regions of Northern Caucasus

The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of the Russian Federation is actively disseminating the experience of fighting militants' supporters in Chechnya, as the most efficient, among the power agents in all other regions of Northern Caucasus, Artyom Melnikov, the head of the GPO Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), said today.

"The work with militants' accomplices and helpers is very good and productive in Chechnya; they have reached a very serious positive result there; and now the positive experience of the Chechen Republic is being spread to other regions," said the GPO official.

Let us remind you that in 2011, according to calculations of the "Caucasian Knot" and information from open sources, at least 82 alleged militants' helpers (including nine women) were detained in the territory of Chechnya.

"Members of the bandit underground not only attack power agents, but also rob ordinary citizens to extort money from them, and kill people, whose actions are contrary to norms of the Sharia, such as traders in alcohol beverages," Mr Melnikov asserts. According to the GPO, for the first nine months of 2011, 364 militants and their accomplices were detained in Northern Caucasus, the "RIA Novosti" writes.

According to calculations of the "Caucasian Knot", from the start of this year at least 131 persons (apart from the 13 natives of Chechnya, detained and extradited from other regions) were detained in Chechnya; of them, 49 suspected alleged members of the armed underground (including a 26-year-old woman, and two girls of 20 and 16 years old).

So far, the "Caucasian Knot" has no data, whether the guilt of all the detainees has been proved at the court, and no comments of these persons or their representatives.