The Nemtsov murder investigation has focused on the theory that the crime was organized by a Chechen militant commander Adam Osmayev, of the Dzhokhar Dudayev battalion, who also was named in the case concerning the attempt to assassinate Vladimir Putin. Investigators are allowing for the possibility that the militants, who fought against DPR and LPR, operated at the behest of Ukrainian secret services, since the murder of the opposition leader would have discredited the Russian leadership and destabilize the political situation.<\/p>\n
A law enforcement source had told the media that the investigating group has evidence that Ukrainian secret services played a role in Nemtsov\u2019s murder. On the day of the murder the Investigative Committee spokesperson Vladimir Markin announced that the investigators are studying the possibility the murder was intended to destabilize the political situation in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe murder could have been used as a provocation to destabilize the situation, with Nemtsov becoming a sort of a sacrificial lamb for those who are not overly choosy in their political methods,\u201d Markin told Izvestiya.<\/p>\n
The investigators are also working on other versions: political, extremist, business, and personal. However, judging by the quality of preparation and implementation, it was done by professionals. The Izvestiya source said that the killer shot Nemtsov only a few tens of meters from the Kremlin, and it since became known that the murder took place in a spot not covered by a surveillance camera. Moreover, they chose a time during which there are no traffic jams, but there is still heavy traffic in the center which allowed the killers\u2019 car to become lost among other vehicles.<\/p>\n
The information that Ukraine\u2019s special services ordered the murder is being verified. The bandits may have performed a mission assigned by Ukrainian secret services, but also avenged the death of their former leader Isa Munaev. He was killed on February 1 during the battle for Debaltsevo, after which the battalion\u2019s command was taken over by Adam Osmayev.<\/p>\n
The so-called Dzhokhar Dudayev international peacekeeping battalion is fighting on Ukraine\u2019s side, and was formed by Munaev in March 2014. Munaev fought in the first Chechen campaign against Russian forces, and after 1999 he declared himself the commander of the South-Western sector and participated in organizing acts of terrorism.<\/p>\n
Munaev fled Chechnya in 2006 for Denmark, where he received asylum. He founded the movement \u201cFree Caucaus\u201d which, according to secret services, financed terrorists. When in 2014 the Ukrainian government launched the ATO against LPR and DPR, Munaev went to Ukraine and declared the formation of his battalion. Russian sources indicate that he was personally invited Igor Kolomoisky, who financed the battalion. The battalion\u2019s core were Chechen immigrants in Denmark, and citizens of other countries who belonged to terrorist organizations.<\/p>\n
Isa Munaev was one of the individuals, along with the commanders of Azov and Dnepr, who supported terrorism on Russia\u2019s soil and who were ordered delivered to Chechnya by Ramzan Kadyrov.<\/p>\n
Russian services are trying to establish how many people participated in the preparation and implementation of Nemtsov\u2019s murder. It cannot be ruled out that, in addition to killers and spotters, there were also \u201ccontrollers\u201d in Moscow who observed the murder\u2019s aftermath and political effect. One of them may have been the Ukrainian deputy Aleksey Goncharenko. Experts who were questioned by Izvestiya believe the theory of foreign secret service involvement to have merit.<\/p>\n
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