I’m sure the American MSM will be all over these developments. NOT!!!!
They have a storyline to spin of Putin murdering Nemtsov. They’ll claim these two guys were framed. It is so predictable, a CNBC bimbo could see it coming.
2 suspects in Nemtsov murder detained – FSB chief
Two suspects in the high-profile murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov have been detained, the Federal Security Service (FSB) reported.
According to FSB chief Aleksandr Bortnikov, the suspects were identified as Anzor Gubashev and Zaur Dadayev.
Bortnikov said both suspects come from Russia’s southern region of the North Caucasus, a restive place with insurgency and crime problems.
The Investigative Committee confirmed the two detainees are implicated in both organizing and executing the hit on Nemtsov.
“We are continuing our work to establish which individuals may be involved in this crime,” the committee’s spokesman Vladimir Markin said.
Nemstov, a former Russian governor and deputy prime minister, who became a prominent opposition figure in the early 2000s, was gunned down in central Moscow on February 27. The assassination triggered worldwide condemnation and calls for swift investigation.
The politician was killed on a bridge over the Moscow River near the Kremlin as he was returning home with a female companion. The shooter hit Nemtsov in the back four times and fled in a getaway car.
The crime is being investigated by a joint task force, which includes the police, the FSB and the Investigative Committee.
Investigators are looking into five possible motives behind Nemtsov’s assassination. According to Vladimir Markin, spokesman for the Investigative Committee, the murder may have been a provocation to destabilize the political situation in Russia.
It could also be linked to threats Nemtsov received over his stance on the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, or the current war in Ukraine. The politician’s business activities and a possible assault related to his personal life are also being looked into.
The prime witness to the crime, Ukrainian model, Anna Duritskaya, who was accompanying Nemtsov, has since returned to Kiev. She told the media she was unable to identify the killer.
The killing happened two days ahead of an opposition rally Nemtsov helped organize. The rally was replaced with a mourning march in central Moscow, which drew tens of thousands of people.
Two Men Charged Over Nemtsov’s Murder, Opposition Fear Scapegoating
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/07/2015 12:00 -0500
Two men from Russia’s southern region of the North Caucasus, have been detained, according to FSB chief Aleksandr Bortnikov, suspected of the murder of Boris Nemtsov. As Reuters reports, The Investigative Committee, the state body leading the investigation, named the two men as Anzor Gubashev and Zaur Dadayev, and said they were “involved in the organization and execution of the killing,” of Nemtsov. Opposition politicians fear scapegoating once again as past high-profile killings in Russia have led to people being jailed for pulling the trigger – often hired hitmen from the Caucasus – while investigators have failed to track down those who ordered the assassinations.
As Reuters reports,
Two suspects have been detained over the killing of Boris Nemtsov, Russian officials said, a week after he was shot dead near the Kremlin in the most high-profile killing of an opposition figure in years.
The Investigative Committee, the state body leading the investigation, named the two men as Anzor Gubashev and Zaur Dadayev. Russian President Vladimir Putin had been informed of the detentions, officials said.
“The individuals detained are, according to our investigation, involved in the organization and execution of the killing of Boris Nemtsov,” the committee said in a statement.
Russian state-controlled media reported the two were from the Caucasus, a violent and impoverished region on Russia’s southern flank. They were expected to be formally arrested at a court hearing in Moscow on Sunday, the reports said.
Associates of the 55-year-old Nemtsov said they would only be satisfied when whoever masterminded the killing was behind bars, not just the people who carried it out.
Past high-profile killings in Russia have led to people being jailed for pulling the trigger — often hired hitmen from the Caucasus — while investigators have failed to track down those who ordered the assassinations.
“I want to believe that these ones are really the ones who conducted (the killing) and that once in a while law enforcement worked professionally and detained real assassins, and did not make a mistake,” Ilya Yashin, the co-chairman of Nemtsov’s party, said of the two suspects.
“The key task for investigators is to find and prosecute the ones who ordered this murder. If everything ends with the detention of scapegoats, irrespective of whether they are the real assassins or not, the practice of political assassinations will continue with no doubt.”
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People from the Caucasus have been named as suspects in other assassinations, including those of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist critical of the Kremlin, in 2006 and of Paul Klebnikov, a U.S. citizen and journalist with the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, in 2004.
Politkovskaya’s supporters say the Chechens sentenced for her killing were low-level foot soldiers, and that investigators failed to find out who was behind her murder.
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It’s curious how perpetrators of political crimes are caught so soon. Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray,the Twin Towers bombers and the Tsarnaev brothers all identified within hours. Coincidence? I don’t believe in coincidence. Now the poor saps in Russia are being framed while the real perpetrators go their way. We have been false flagged for a long time. Oh yeah, John Wilkes Booth as well.
Overthe C well said!
Nemtsov Murder Suspect Commits Suicide By Grenade, 5 Others Arrested
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/08/2015 15:20 -0400
Convenient? While two North Caucasus men have been formally arrested and charged for the murder of Boris Nemtsov (and three others arrested as suspected accomplices), The Telegraph reports a sixth suspect, Bislan Shavanov, decided to blow himself up with a grenade when police surrounded his home in Chechnya.
Zaur Dadayev in court today… Aymani Dadayeva, Mr Dadayev’s mother, told Russian media that her son served for ten years in the “North” battalion in Chechnya, an interior ministry unit headed by relatives of Ramzan Kadyrov, the republic’s fiercely pro-Putin leader.
A press release from Mr Kadyrov’s press service shows that a Zaur Dadayev serving in interior ministry forces in Chechnya was awarded with a medal issued by Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s then president, in 2010. It was unclear if it was the same man and Mr Kadyrov, who frequently accuses Russian opposition figures of being agents of Western intelligence services, has yet to comment on the detentions.
In televised comments, Mrs Dadayeva said she believed her son was innocent. “Please understand correctly,” she said. “He served honourably and very bravely in the army of the Chechen Republic, for Russia. Please find the killer. This is a mistake, a very big mistake. He could not have done this.”
and Anzor Gubashev home video just hours after the murder of Nemtsov… Zurpan Gubasheva, Mr Gubashev’s mother, said she would “never believe” that her sons were guilty. “They were never aggressive, they never took anything from anybody,” she told LifeNews. “When we needed to kill a chicken we had to ask the neighbours.”
Five suspects have been arrested and charged… (via Interfax)
The Investigative Committee of Russia has lodged a motion in court for the arrest of five people which the investigation believes were involved in the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov.
“The Investigative Committee motions for the arrest of five suspects related to the murder of Boris Nemtsov. The investigation continues,” spokesman for the committee Vladimir Markin twitted on Sunday.
Nemtsov, an opposition leader and a former Russian deputy prime minister, was killed in the center of Moscow late on February 27. Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov said on Saturday that two men identified as Anzor Gubashev and Zaur Dadayev had been detained on suspicion of involvement in the murder.
Markin said that the detainees are suspected of both organizing and perpetrating the crime. He said investigators continue identifying people related to the murder.
Defiant…
Zaur Dadayev and Anzor Gubashev, both from Russia’s troubled North Caucasus region, appeared at Moscow’s Basmanny Court, where the presiding judge said that Mr Dadayev had confessed to the crime under questioning.
Three other men, Shagid Gubashev, Tamerlan Eskerkhanov and Khamzat Bakhayev, were formally arrested as suspected accomplices at the court. All five were remanded in custody.
During the hearing the latter three men tried to hide their faces using their jackets, while Mr Dadayev looked defiantly at media cameras and raised his index finger, in a gesture often associated with Islamists. No suggested motive for the killing was outlined in court.
But, as The Telegraph explains, a sixth decided to take another path…
Meanwhile, in Chechnya, a sixth suspect, Bislan Shavanov, blew himself up with a grenade as police tried to detain him, Russian media reported.
Officers surrounded the man at an apartment in Grozny on Saturday evening, but he was killed by a hand grenade that exploded as he tossed it towards them, a law enforcement source told Interfax.
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The suspects are the suspected hitmen, according to officials, who added that the masterminds behind the murder are still at large.