Three natives of Chechnya arrested with regard to Politkovskaya's murder case

Murad Musaev, advocate of one of the detainees, has informed that three brothers-Chechens are now among the persons arrested in relation to the murder case of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. All the three are qualified as the crime accomplices. None of them pleads guilty.

According to Yuri Chaika, General Public Prosecutor of Russia, in total ten persons are arrested under the case, including direct organizers, accomplices and executors of the crime.

Mr Chaika has declared that the State Office of Public Prosecutor will seek for extradition of the customer of Anna Politkovskaya's murder. He refused to name this person, but said that he is abroad. In Prosecutor's words, journalist Politkovskaya had known the customer. Yuri Chaika has added that a Moscow criminal grouping headed by a native of Chechnya had been involved in the murder of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta," the RSN reports.

Prosecutor Chaika has also informed that he rejects any engagement of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs and FSB (Federal Security Bureau) in Anna Politkovskaya's murder. According to his version, the case can be with certain particular employees of these agencies.