Uzbek MP demands apology from Kadyrov

Odiljon Tozhiev, an Uzbek MP, has condemned Ramzan Kadyrov's statements about the officials who had survived the assassination attempt; he has called on Kadyrov to apologize and help find the suspects. One of them, Bislan Rasaev, was accused of political murders and espionage in Turkey, but could have been released within prisoners' exchange.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the head of Chechnya had treated the version about a "Chechen trace" in the attack on the car of a former civil servant in Uzbekistan as "a fabrication". On December 26, Kadyrov threatened to respond in line with Chechen traditions for the slander to the two officials who, according to the media, were the targets of an assassination attempt organized with involvement of Chechen authorities.

Odiljon Tozhiev, an Uzbek MP, has appealed to the Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) with a request to give a legal assessment of Kadyrov's statements. The MP has noted that if Kadyrov really considers himself a friend of Uzbekistan, he should help in finding and handing over to the authorities Bislan Rasaev and Shamil Temirkhanov, accused of the assassination attempt on Komil Allamjonov, a former press secretary of the President of Uzbekistan.

On October 26, as Allamjonov was returning home to Tashkent, two men fired at the car he was in. Authorities launched a search for Rasaev and Temirkhanov, Russian citizens of Chechen origin, in connection with the attempted murder. It became known that the suspects' another target was Dmitry Li, the head of the National Agency for Promising Projects.