Guards and brother of Chechen representative in Ukraine arrested in Moscow

Two bodyguards and a brother of Ramzan Tsitsulaev, the representative of the leader of the Chechen Republic in Ukraine, have been arrested by the Khamovniki Court in Moscow for two months on suspicion of using violence to state officials. Tsitsulaev himself is a figurant of the case of large-scale fraud in Moscow.

According to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), on November 19 policemen tried to detain Tsitsulaev in the restaurant of the Moscow Hotel "Golden Ring" under the above fraud case. However, the official was defended by his relative and bodyguards, who rendered resistance to law enforcers.

As a result, Tsitsulaev's bodyguards and brother were arrested, while he managed to leave the hotel and fly to Chechnya.

Later, Tsitsulaev said that the accusation against him was fabricated and that he is "ready to come to the ICRF if he is duly summoned." According to Tsitsulaev, earlier he had agreed to help with an advocate to a certain Maria Novikova, whose husband was put into SIZO (pre-trial prison).

According to Tsitsulaev's version, the woman asked him for appointment in Moscow, during which she tried to give him something in a black bag; at that moment law enforcers appeared, the newspaper "Sobesednik" reports.

Since June 2010, Ramzan Tsitsulaev, a native of the Urus-Martan District of Chechnya, is the head of the Chechnya's representative office in Ukraine. It was he who was involved in release from captivity of the journalists of "LifeNews" Oleg Sidyakin and Marat Saichenko, the RBC reports.

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