Three Chechens Involved in Attack on Turkmen President

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Three Chechens Involved in Attack on Turkmen President

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Turkmen Attorney General Kurbanbibi Atadzhanova announced on Wednesday that there were three Chechens,six Turks, one Moldavian, one Armenian and 12 Turkmens among 23 suspects involved in the attack on Turkmen President Saparmurad Niyazov last month, reports from the Turkmen capital of Ashkhabad said.

Atadzhanova claimed the masterminds of the attack were former first deputy agriculture minister, Saparmurat Yklymov, former deputy prime ministers, Boris Shikhmuladov and Hudayberdy Orazob, and former Turkmen ambassador to Turkey, Nurmuxamed Hanamov. All of them are not in Turkmenistan.

The plotters employed killers for 25,000 US dollars each and promised that the family of each killer could get compensation of 50,000 dollars if he was killed in the attack, Atadzhanova said.

He added that most suspects had admitted their crime after being arrested. They would be charged with plotting to murder the head of state, premeditated murder, unlawful possession of weaponsand setting up criminal gangs.

On Nov. 25, President Niyazov was attacked by gunmen on his way to the presidential palace from his residence in a Ashkhabad suburb. On Dec. 2, director of Turkmen presidential office, SerdarDurdiye, announced that the results of interrogation of 23 suspects showed the attack was "a premeditated coup."

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