30 July 2007, 14:10
Chechen Ombudsman refutes information on allocation of 47 million rubles for searching missing persons
Mass media report that the Ombudsman on human rights in the Chechen Republic has been allocated 47 million rubles for searching missing persons. This information is absolutely far-fetched, states Ombudsman Nurdi Nukhazhiev.
The said amount has been allocated by the ChR Government upon the instruction of R.A. Kadyrov, Chechen Republic President, via the Chechen Ministry of Health, for purchasing equipment to identify exhumated bodies, reports IA "Grozny Inform."
"There are thousands of people in the republic whose relatives have been kidnapped or are missing. The misleading information reported by information agencies and already published by some printed outlets (the "Golos Chechenskoy Respubliki" newspaper No 12 (21175)) forces us to explain to scores of people every day that the money has been allocated not to the Ombudsman on human rights office in the Chechen Republic", states Nurdi Nukhazhiev.
