BERLIN. Dec 3 (Interfax) - The Russian embassy in Germany has no new information regarding the criminal probe into the high-profile murder of a Georgian citizen in Berlin, an embassy press officer said.
"The embassy has received no additional information on this incident from Russian or German law enforcement authorities," the press officer said.
Television channels WDR, NDR and the newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported earlier on Tuesday that the German prosecutor general's office would take charge of investigating the Georgian national's murder as it believes that the order to kill could have come from "the Russian state or the public authorities of the Chechen Republic." The case will be transferred to the prosecutor general's office as early as this week, the media said.
Khangoshvili was killed in the Kleiner Tiergarten neighborhood in central Berlin around noon on August 23 while on his way to a mosque. The killer shot his victim twice. Khangoshvili died on the spot.
German media reported that the murdered Georgian was native of Chechnya, and the man they soon arrested as a suspected murderer a Russian national. The Russian embassy said that the detainee was receiving consular assistance. It will check the man's nationality, the embassy said. After that, Martin Steltner, representative of the Berlin prosecutor's office, told Interfax that the suspect had Russian citizenship.