Four alleged Baidulaev’s accomplices detained in Chechnya

Police have detained four residents of Chechnya suspected of helping Bislan Baidulaev, killed by power agents in Grozny on June 26.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on June 26 in Grozny power agents blocked two suspected militants. According to official information, the latter were first to open fire and wounded two policemen. The attackers were killed by response fire and later identified as Mansur Usmanov and Bislan Baidulaev, members of the Tagilov grouping, subordinated to Aslan Byutukaev.

In June, Aslan Byutukaev, the commander of the battalion of suicide bombers, swore, on behalf of all Chechen militants, to the leader of the “Islamic State (IS), which has been recognized as a terrorist organization.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, the four men, now detained in Grozny and the villages of Achkhoi-Martan and Davydenko, “since October 2013, provided various forms of assistance to Bislan Baidulaev." It is also noted that the eldest of the detainees is 38 years old, and the youngest – 24.

The killed Baidulaev and Usmanov were involved in the terror act committed in Grozny in late 2014 and planned to commit more terror acts, said a source from the republic’s power structures. According to his version, in February 2015, Usmanov and Baidulaev planned to commit a terror act against the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, "however, law enforcers managed to prevent the act."

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.