MAKHACHKALA. Jan 25 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Friday it possessed evidence that Russian business magnate Boris Berezovsky, who lives abroad, is funding Chechen rebels.
The FSB said it would pass the alleged evidence to foreign authorities to seek Berezovsky's extradition.
"It has been established and documented that Berezovsky is connected with some of the field commanders and that he is financing terrorist activity," spokesman Alexander Zdanovich told a news conference in Makhachkala.
"As soon as the bandits receive additional financial injections, they intensify subversive and terrorist activities."
Zdanovich did not say when Berezovsky began his alleged funding of rebels, but promised that all the evidence would be handed over to authorities in Europe.
"We will hand over the information to our counterparts with whom we are maintaining partnership relations in combating terrorism," Zdanovich said. "We will certainly hand over the documented information, firstly for an assessment, and secondly for taking measures. If there is good reason to suspect a person of helping terrorists and financing them, there must be proper action to extradite him to Russia."