
Secretary of the Security Council of Chechnya, Rudnik Dudaev, died on Sunday during a fire in a residential building on the territory of the government complex in Grozny. This was reported by RIA Novosti by the representative of the government of the republic.
The fire in the house in which Dudaev lived began at about 14.00. The reason for the fire, which is already extinguished, is not known.
According to the prosecutor of Chechnya Valery Kuznetsov, the investigative-operational group of the FSB and the prosecutor's office works at the fire site. "If there are signs of the corpus delicti, a criminal case will be instituted," Kuznetsov said. He added that after a preliminary inspection of the scene of the incident, a fire and technical examination will be assigned if necessary.
Later, the deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya, Ahmed Dakaev, said that the arson version was not considered. "Perhaps the cause of the fire was the fire of the electrical wiring. Death occurred as a result of suffocation, since the trailer from the inside is plastic," Dakaev said.
At the same time, a message appeared on the website of the Chechen separatists that "Rudnik Dudaev was destroyed as a result of a special operation." According to this information, the militants blew up the house with a mining mine. After the explosion, a strong fire arose, which could not be put out, the site reports.
This is the second similar case. January 1, 2005 in the house of the Rudnik Dudaeva, which was also located on the territory of the government complex, there was a fire, the house burned completely. At the time of the fire of the Dudaev mine, there was no in the building.
KGB Colonel Rudnik Dudaev served as secretary of the Chechnya Security Council since February 2001.
Earlier, he worked as deputy head of the Chechen administration on interaction with law enforcement agencies, was the chairman of the external relations of the Association of Muslim organizations of the Russian Federation, and was engaged in business.