FSB: Ingush power agents have no relation to kidnapping of Rustam Aushev

The official statement of the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) of Russia states that its employees were not involved in detention of Rustam Aushev, a resident of Ingushetia, who disappeared on February 17.

"The Department of the FSB for the Republic of Ingushetia is hereby officially declaring that its employees were not involved in detention of Aushev, R. A., born in 1988, and have information about his whereabouts. Jointly with other law enforcement bodies, we are taking steps to find him," says the Department's press release.

The document says that the above department has held a check in cooperation with other interested law enforcement bodies of the Republic of Ingushetia and the Stavropol Territory, and the Division of Own Safety of the FSB.

As reported by an employee of the press service of the Department of the FSB for Ingushetia at a specially convoked briefing, the information about the telegram received from the investigator for especially important cases Kobeev, which reported that Aushev had been detained by the Department of the FSB for Ingushetia and taken away from the Stavropol Territory, was a lie.

At the end of the briefing, he expressed hope that everything was OK with Rustam Aushev, he would be found; and the whole story would be clarified," the "Vesti-Ingushetia" reports."