MOSCOW. April 27 (Interfax-AVN) - The investigation into crimes committed by international terrorist Khattab will be continued despite his death, a high ranking prosecution official has said.
"Judging by the video footage, Khattab is really dead, but investigation activities cannot be stopped, as the law requires that all crimes committed by him be fully, comprehensively, and objectively investigated," Deputy Prosecutor General for the Southern Federal District Sergei Fridinsky said in a Saturday interview with Interfax.
"To make procedural decisions, we need, in particular, testimony by witnesses and victims. In the end, we need to
When asked how this can be done, the prosecutor replied, "we will be looking for the corpse."
"The video footage is, of course, a good thing, but we need the corpse," Fridinsky said.
The deputy prosecutor general recalled that the prominent warlord is involved as a suspect in two criminal cases, namely the attack on Dagestan in August 1999 and on the execution of a Russian serviceman.