24 April 2009, 21:30
Zeitun Sultanov, underground leader, killed in Kabardino-Balkaria
The car passenger, liquidated on April 22 in Kabardino-Balkaria by power agents, was identified as Zeitun Sultanov, leader of the local armed underground movement.
We remind you that in the evening on April 22 power agents chased a suspicious VAZ-2106 car in Attoev Street of Khasanya village, out of which fire was opened on militiamen. In the course of the skirmish, the car was shelled, in particular by a grenade launcher. The car was burnt down, and both persons inside died. Sultanov's body was strongly scorched; now examination is underway to make his official identification. Right after the operation, militaries reported that armed hooligans were in the car.
And already on April 23, the PR Centre of the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) reported that the liquidation of the militants' leader in Khasanya village became a result of a joint MIA-FSB operation, directed against armed criminals who rendered armed resistance and were liquidated "during armed contact", as reported by the ITAR-TASS.
A source in Chechnya's law enforcement bodies said that, according to operative data, Zeitun Sultanov, born in 1978, was assistant of Anzor Astemirov, underground commander, and headed the eastern, central and Kabardino-Balkarian directions of the Caucasian Front.
Sultanov was in international search as an active participant of illegal armed formations, which attacked Nalchik in 2005.
