Presumed militant slain in Caucasus suspected of series of murders - Russian agency
MOSCOW. Jan 29 (Interfax) - A presumed militant who has been killed in Nalchik, capital of the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in Russia's North Caucasus, is suspected of a series of murders, Russia's Investigative Committee said on Tuesday.
The passport found on the man's body identified him as Zeitun Boziyev, a militant suspected of murdering Kazbek Gekkiyev, a journalist at the All-Russia State Television and Radio Company (VGTRK), Boris Zherukov, rector of the Kabardino-Balkarian Agrarian University, and "a whole series of murders of policemen and investigators," Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin told Interfax.
"An identification procedure is underway. Boziyev was presumably a member of illegal armed units," Markin said.
Boziyev was suspected of complicity in murdering two police commissioners in Nalchik in 2011 and in the 2012 murder of a traffic police inspector.
He is accused of murder attempts against Interior Forces personnel, a member of the police force of the republic's Cherek district, and detective Alim Vorokov.
He is believed to have been involved in killing police Lt. Col. Alexander Bukin on Monday and in the earlier murder of Kantemir Kyarov, a detective for top-priority cases at the Kabardino-Balkarian branch of the Investigative Committee.
"Measures are being taken to find and detain others who are suspected of those crimes," Markin said.