STAVROPOL. Aug 15 (Interfax) - The resident of Kabardino-Balkaria that was detained in Pyatigorsk on Friday used to be the range instructor of the failed terrorist, Viktor Dvorakovsky, spokesperson for the Interior Ministry department for the South Caucasian Federal District Lyudmila Boinikova has told Interfax.
"In the process of checking Dvorakovsky's criminal ties, operatives took interest in a resident of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, born in 1984, who had taught Dvorakovsky to use small arms and was his instructor," she said.
A criminal case of illegal possession of arms was launched against the detainee.
It was reported earlier that Dvorakovsky's suspected accomplice was detained in Pyatigorsk.
"Law enforcement officers tried to stop a suspicious VAZ-2112 car in the Mineralniye Vody city area, however, the driver did not stop but on the contrary started fleeing from the police at high speed. The pursuit continued to Pyatigorsk where the car was surrounded by several police patrols," a source in the Stavropol territory law enforcement has told Interfax.
Azamat Unashkhotlov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, was behind the wheel and a grenade was discovered under the seat. The police also seized drugs from Unashkhotlov.
Dvorakovsky, 24, professes radical Islam. He was declared wanted after a home-made bomb exploded last March in a house he was renting in Pyatigorsk. The theory was reported then that Dvorakovsky had planned a terrorist attack in Central Russia.
He was detained on Stavropol territory on July 13. When he tried to offer resistance to the police, a home-made bomb went off in his hands badly injuring him.
A criminal case of an attempt on the life of law enforcers, and the illegal possession and manufacture of weapons was opened against him.