Aslan Yandiyev was brought
to Russia aboard the Bratislava-Moscow flight on July 17.
MOSCOW, July 18.
/TASS/. Bratislava has extradited Aslan Yandiyev to Russia, a gang member
linked to deceased Chechen militant commander, Shamil Basayev, the Public
Relations Center of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) informed TASS.
"The wanted
individual was involved in organizing and committing a string of
headline-making terrorist attacks using high-powered IEDs (improvised explosive
devices) in a city park and entertainment center in Vladikavkaz [the capital of
Russia’s North Ossetia-Alania Region - TASS], which resulted in civilian
casualties," the Public Relations Center said.
According to the FSB,
Yandiyev evaded criminal prosecution by absconding from the country in 2010
using a fake passport and attempted to legalize his status in Switzerland, the
Netherlands and other European countries.
"In 2011, he was
detained in Slovakia on the basis of the information provided by Russia,"
the FSB said. "To prevent (his) extradition, the defendant tried to appeal
against the decision to extradite him to Russia through his defense attorneys
for seven years, arguing that the charges against him were
unsubstantiated."
Thanks to concerted
efforts by Russian law enforcement agencies, the evidence furnished by them on
the wanted individual’s criminal activities, made it possible for Slovakia’s
judicial authorities to make a final decision on his extradition. As a result,
Russia’s FSB, together with the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Russian
Interior Ministry’s National Central Bureau of Interpol and Russia’s Federal
Penitentiary Service, organized the extradition of Yandiyev (born in 1978) from
Slovakia to Russia.
He was flown to
Russia aboard the Bratislava-Moscow flight on July 17. "Further
investigative actions are underway to record his involvement in the crimes that
have been committed," the FSB added.
Source: ITAR-TASS
18-07-2018
