
A native of Chechnya Ahmed Chataev, who is called the organizer of the recent terrorist attack at Istanbul airport named after Ataturka, was an agent of the Georgian Security Service in the presidency of Mikhail Saakashvili. According to News-Georgia, this was announced on the air of Rustavi-2 television channel by the head of the country's defense and security committee, Irakli Ceciashvili, a member of the ruling party "Georgian Dream", which replaced the Saakashvili unified national movement in power.
"Saakashvili gave him instructions through Lorkipanidze (Giorgi Lorkipanidze, ex -Zamglava of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, now the head of the police of the Odessa region of Ukraine. - Ed.)," Kesiashvili said.
According to Ceciashvili, Chataev had an operational passport of a Georgian citizen. “He went on business trips, received a salary corresponding to the remuneration, business trips and worked for Saakashvili so,” the deputy said. “Chataev was detained in Ukraine, and then the Georgian authorities saw the opportunity to use it for certain purposes.”
Against Chataev, Ceciashvili explained, in Georgia they fabricated the murder committed in the country, and on this basis achieved his extradition from Ukraine. At the same time, the deputy claims, there are documents proving that Chataev had never been to Georgia before the extradition.
Ceciashvili meant Chataev’s detention in January 2010 in Uzhgorod. Then the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Yuri Lutsenko, stated that in the detainee’s mobile phone they found instructions for an subversive case and photographs of the dead. The ECHR prohibited the extradition of the detainee in Russia, and Chataev was transferred to Georgia, where he was charged with a crime committed in the 2000s.
In September 2012, the Georgian security forces detained Chataev in the Lopot gorge after a fight with the natives of Chechnya and the Pankis gorge. As reported, 14 people were killed during the collision, including three security forces.
However, after the victory of the "Georgian dream" in the elections of Chataev, he was declared a negotiator between the security forces and underground. The Tbilisi City Court released the arrested from prison on bail of 5 thousand Lari (about 3 thousand dollars).
Meanwhile, the agency reports, earlier Lorkipanidze denied information about the presence of Georgian citizenship Chataev. It is noted that this information was widespread by the Chechen security forces.
In turn, Saakashvili announced on Thursday on his FB page that Chataev was a Russian citizen. The ex-president noted that in 2012 he protested against the release of the arrested, but the prosecutor's office supported the court decision.
Meanwhile, according to Georgia Online, the US Ambassador to Georgia Jan Kelly the day before noted that Washington had no information confirming Chataev’s involvement in the attack in Istanbul.
June 28 at the airport. Ataturka took place two explosions . At least one of the terrorists, before being blown up, fired at the gathered in the terminal from the machine gun. 42 people were killed, including 13 foreigners; 238 people were injured.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yyldyrym, citing preliminary data , accused the Islamic State attack .
On Thursday, Hürriyet wrote that one of the suicide bombers could be a native of Chechnya Osman Vadinov . It was suggested that Vadinov arrived in Istanbul from the capital of IS RAKKI. Meanwhile, Russia said that a person with such a name and surname in Chechnya never lived, and Vadinov is not Chechen.