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Plot to kill Putin foiled
Monday February 27, 2012 07:26:09 PM,
IANS
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Moscow: Russian and Ukrainian security services have
foiled a plot to assassinate Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
shortly after the upcoming presidential election in the country,
it emerged Monday.
The group of criminals, who were already on the international
wanted list, were detained in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, the
Daily Telegraph reported.
According to the state-run TV Channel One, the gang was planning
to assassinate Putin in Moscow, soon after the presidential
elections scheduled to be held March 4. Special forces had seized
two conspirators in Odessa city, after an explosion in an
apartment in January.
The alleged Chechen ringleader, Adam Osmayev, has reportedly
confessed to planning the assassination on the orders of Doku
Umarov, the emir of the Islamist insurgency against Moscow's rule
in the North Caucasus region.
Channel One showed Osmayev in detention saying: "The ultimate aim
was to travel to Moscow and try to assassinate Premier Putin."
Osmayev, who was shown with blotches of green antiseptic covering
wounds on his face, was captured separately later. The men had a
laptop with several videos of Putin's motorcade travelling through
Moscow on it.
The plan was exposed after an explosion in Odessa Jan 4, which was
initially thought to be a domestic gas explosion. However, it
turned out to be an accident during the preparation of an
explosive device.
One of the men, Ruslan Madayev, 26, died in the blast but
Ukrainian special forces arrested a second, Ilya Pyanzin, 28, two
days later.
Putin did not comment Monday morning but his spokesman, Dmitry
Peskov, confirmed that the murder plot was real.
Madayev and Pyanzin, a Kazakh citizen, were said to have flown to
Ukraine from the United Arab Emirates via Turkey "with precise
instructions from representatives of Doku Umarov".
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