Maskhadov’s body was taken outside Chechnya for a forensic examination at the genetic level

The body of the murdered leader of the Chechen separatists Aslan Maskhadov was taken outside Chechnya for conducting a forensic medical examination, including at the genetic level. This was stated on Thursday by Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Nikolai Shepel.

According to Shepeel, biological samples were taken to conduct examinations. "Maskhadov’s visual identification is completed. We have seven identification protocols based on the results of an external examination of the body. All those who identified, including his relatives,, according to various signs with the exact indication of individual details and the characteristics of the body structure, the lifetime scars, confirmed: the murdered - the so -called" President of Ichkeria Aslan Mashadov, "Shepel said.

According to him, "all the necessary investigative actions that are possible in the field have been conducted by the prosecutor's office." "To carry out the remaining procedural measures in stationary conditions, the body of the murdered was taken outside the Chechen Republic," said deputy prosecutor general.

Shepel did not indicate the exact place of forensic medical examinations for security reasons, Interfax reports.

Recall that on Wednesday, the military commandant of Chechnya, Lieutenant General Grigory Fomenko, said that the corpse of the FSB of the Russian Federation destroyed by the Special Forces in the village of Tolstoy-Yurt in the Grozny district of Chechnya, the leader of the separatists Aslan Maskhadov, was officially identified , and this procedure is formalized by the relevant protocol. According to the general, who also participated in identifying the remains of Maskhadov, "identification was carried out by representatives of general and republican prosecutors at the military base in Khankala."

On the same day, the deputy prosecutor of the Russian Federation Shepel said that the body of Aslan Maskhadov would not be issued to relatives and will be buried without notifying them about the place and the date of the burial. “The current legislation does not provide for the issuance of the bodies of the dead terrorists to relatives for the burial of the bodies,” Shepel emphasized. To the question of how soon the Earth of Maskhadov will be devoted to the Earth, the deputy prospector replied: "First, a set of investigative measures related to the identification of the body should be carried out. I think this will take at least two weeks."

Shepel recalled that the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office previously charged Maskhadov under several articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In particular, he was accused of armed rebellion on the events of 2000 and terrorism in connection with the terrorist attack in Beslan, perfect in early September last year. “The investigation has all the data that it was Maskhadov that was one of the organizers of this crime,” the deputy prospector emphasized.

On Thursday, one of the opposition Chechen sites published the appeal of the Aslan Maskhadov family to the leaders of the world community, which emphasized that the Russian leadership did not betray the body of the murdered leader of Chechen separatists for burial.

"The Russian leadership, having traced universal norms, in a completely wild manner in relation to the body of the President Maskhadov killed by them. Thus, they add another pain to the pain of our loss. This is blasphemous and completely inexplicably in the conditions of a modern civilized world!" - The letter says.

The appeal of relatives of Maskhadov also states that "the leadership of the Russian Federation, calling the President of the ChRI" terrorist ", is trying to relieve himself of the blame for his murder."