Police Interrogate Putin Death-Plot Suspect

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Investigators will on Monday begin interrogating Ilya Pyanzin, one of the two suspects in a foiled plot to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin, two days after he was extradited to Russia from Ukraine, a source in the security services told RIA Novosti.

Investigators will on Monday begin interrogating Ilya Pyanzin, one of the two suspects in a foiled plot to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin, two days after he was extradited to Russia from Ukraine, a source in the security services told RIA Novosti.

"The suspect, Pyanzin, has been remanded in pretrial detention facility No. 2 at Lefortovo and investigators from the Federal Security Services (FSB) are likely to start working with him today,” the source said.

Pyanzin was extradited to Russia on Saturday from the pretrial detention facility in Odessa where he had been held since January.

Pyanzin along with a second arrested suspect, Adam Osmayev, were apprehended in Odessa after a fellow suspect was killed in an apartment blast in the city in January.

Ukrainian intelligence services said both suspects confessed immediately afterwards to their involvement in the assassination plot at the orders of Chechen warlord Doku Umarov.

The alleged plot, which was exposed just days ahead of the presidential elections in March, has been dismissed by Putin’s critics as Kremlin’s bid to win popularity for the Russian leader.

Last week, Ukraine suspended the extradition to Russia of the second suspect, Osmayev, 31, after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said it would review the case. A Ukrainian court this month ruled that Osmayev should be extradited to Russia but he challenged the ruling in the Strasbourg-based court. He has denied plotting to blow up Putin.

 

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