MOSCOW. May 24 (Interfax) - A resident of the Kizlyar district, Dagestan, Pakhrutdin Akhmedov, has confessed to killing Ataman Pyotr Statsenko of the Kizlyar Cossack community in April, a Dagestani law enforcement source told Interfax,
Akhmetov was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of organizing a double terror attack in Kizlyar in late March.
"Akhmedov has confessed to killing Statsenko. He said he had committed the murder with Pakhrutdin Gadzhiyev, a resident of the Cossack village of Borozdinovskaya in the Shelkovskoi district, Chechnya, and with another accomplice, both of whom have been placed on a wanted list," the source said.
No official confirmation of these reports is available to Interfax so far.
Statsenko, the head of the Kizlyar district gas operation service and an ex-deputy of the Dagestan legislature, was shot and killed in the village of Krasny Voskhod, Kizlyar district on April 21 2010.
Akhmedov, suspected of organizing a terror attack in Kizlyar on March 31, which left ten police officers and two suicide bombers dead, was arrested in the Kizlyar district on Saturday.
A double terror attack was carried out in Kizlyar on March 31. The first bomb was set off by a driver, when a traffic control policeman stopped his Niva car to check the driver's documents. The second blast came 15 minutes later, after investigators and other services arrived at the scene. The bomb was set off in the crowd by a suicide bomber wearing a police uniform. Twelve people were killed, including the two terrorists, and 37 people were injured in the terror attacks.