ABU DHABI, April 2 (RIA Novosti) - Dubai police have
released everyone detained on suspicion of involvement in the
murder of former Chechen military commander Sulim Yamadayev,
Russia's consul general to Dubai said on Thursday.
"Dubai police representatives say all persons who were
detained in connection with Yamadayev's killing have been
freed," Sergei Krasnogor said.
Yamadayev, who commanded Russia's elite Vostok battalion
based in Chechnya but answering directly to the federal Defense
Ministry, was reportedly shot early on Saturday by a lone
gunman in the underground parking lot of the Dubai apartment
building where he lived.
Earlier Russia's Consulate General told RIA Novosti that
at least seven people had been detained in connection with the
murder, all of whom had Slavic surnames.
Yamadayev was officially dismissed as Vostok commander
last August over alleged involvement in the 1998 abduction and
murder of a Chechen businessman. The battalion was later
disbanded.
The killing of Yamadayev is the sixth in a series of
killings of Chechen exiles in the past year.
Sulim's brother, Ruslan Yamadayev, a former member of the
Russian parliament's lower house, was gunned down in central
Moscow last September. He was a prominent opponent of Chechen
President Ramzan Kadyrov, who has denied any involvement in the
killing.
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