KHASAVYURT. Jan 15 (Interfax-South) - Police detained a Chechen rebel group leader in Khasavyurt, Dagestan, on Wednesday, a source in the Khasavyurt district police force told Interfax.
"Emir Islam Soltanmuradov, 21, a resident of the Shali district of Chechnya, was detained in the course of the Vikhr- Antiterror (Anti- Terrorist Whirl) operation," the source said.
Soltanmuradov has been charged with murder, terrorism and forming a criminal group.
He has been handed over to the Chechen police.