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Fourth suspect in attempt to kill Chubais released

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Russia's Supreme Court has decided to release from custody a fourth suspect in an assassination attempt on former electricity monopoly chief Anatoly Chubais, the suspect's mother said on Thursday.
MOSCOW, December 4 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Supreme Court has decided to release from custody a fourth suspect in an assassination attempt on former electricity monopoly chief Anatoly Chubais, the suspect's mother said on Thursday.

Ivan Mironov, the son of former Russian Press and Information Minister Ivan Mironov, will be released later today "on personal guarantees from State Duma [parliament] deputies."

She said her son had taken part in the court session via a video conference call from a Moscow pretrial detention center. The suspect has not been acquitted of the crime, and may face further hearings.

The assassination attempt took place near Moscow on March 17, 2005. A bomb exploded as Chubais' car was passing, and his vehicle subsequently was fired on with automatic weapons. Chubais was not hurt in the attack.

In mid-June, the Moscow Region Court acquitted three suspects in the assassination attempt. The court issued a ruling based on the jury's not-guilty verdict of June 5.

Colonel Vladimir Kvachkov, a former General Staff member, and two former paratroopers - Alexander Naidenov and Robert Yashin - were released from custody following the reading of the verdict.

According to prosecutors, the defendants were motivated by their extremist views and a violent dislike of Chubais, an architect of economic reforms in the 1990s that impoverished millions and handed vast fortunes to a handful of well-connected oligarchs.

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