Suspect of organizing Okueva's murder detained

The Ukrainian police have detained members of a criminal grouping, one of the members thereof is suspected of organizing an assassination attempt on a Chechen native, Adam Osmaev, and the murder of his wife Amina Okueva in the fall of 2017.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the car with Adam Osmaev and Amina Okueva was shelled near the village of Glevakha near Kiev on October 30, 2017. As a result of the attack, Okueva died on the spot, and Osmaev was wounded.

The detention of "a grouping of killers reasonably suspected of killing Amina Okueva," was reported by Arsen Avakov, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ukraine.

"The detainee's DNA has matched the DNA found on the weapon left at the crime scene," Mr Avakov wrote in his Facebook page.

Among the detainees, there is the organizer of the attempt on Osmaev and Okueva, Igor Klimenko, the head of the National Police, has added.

"The grouping as a whole consisted of seven persons; some of them on suspicion of two murders were detained in September 2019. Today, operative agents have detained the organizer of the assassination of Amina Okueva and the attempted murder of her husband. The detainee is also a member of this criminal grouping," the press service of the National Police quotes Mr Klimenko as saying.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on January 12, 2020 at 09:30 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.