Suspect of killing Kadyrov's guard announced a threat to Britain's national security

British secret services have banned the Chechen native, suspected of involvement in the murder of Umar Israilov, Ramzan Kadyrov's former security guard, and preparing for the assassination of Akhmed Zakaev, a former head of Ichkeria's government.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that Umar Israilov, a former security of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, was killed near his home in Vienna on January 13, 2009. A few days before the murder, Israilov turned to the Austrian police with a complaint about shadowing.

British special services have banned a former bodyguard of Aslan Maskhadov, the President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria from entering the country, announcing him a "threat to national security" of the UK. The native of Chechnya was banned from entering the UK in August 2018, but the British The Times only reported this on March 9, 2019, citing the name of the person in question.

The man, whose non-admittance to the UK was reported by The Times, in 2012 was identified as a figurant in the murder of Umar Israilov in Vienna. According to the "Novaya Gazeta", based on data from three Austrian sources, he is one of Maskhadov's former bodyguards, who left Britain in 2009 and returned to Chechnya. The secret services treat his role in the murder of the former Kadyrov's guard as "significant", and called him "a serious threat" to the life of Akhmed Zakaev.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on March 10, 2019 at 02:03 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.