GROZNY. April 28 (Interfax-AVN) - A militant detained in Chechnya has confessed to participation in blasting the Meskety village administration office, the Russian Interior Ministry's provisional press center in the North Caucasus said on Thursday.
"The 39-year-old resident of Meskety in the Nozhai-Yurt district, who had been detained earlier, confessed to taking part in blasting the local administration office together with a gang on September 26, 2002," a press center official told Interfax-Military News Agency.
A criminal case was opened in this connection, and operatives are checking the detainee's possible involvement in other crimes.
According to the press center, law-enforcers detained a 20-year-old militant in the village of Sernovodsky. While checking his information on an arms cache, operatives found a hiding place on the territory of a state-owned road operation enterprise. The cache contained a homemade pistol, a detailed topographic map of the Sunzha district and adjacent territories, and literature on producing and activating explosive devices. A criminal case was opened in this connection.
The Chechen police checked 4,051 vehicles and 6,907 people on Wednesday. They registered 40 crimes, detecting 29 of them hot on the trail, and 295 administrative violations.