MOSCOW. Jan 17 (Interfax-AVN) - A worker of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Sayid-Hussein Deniyev, who went missing in Chechnya on January 13, 2005, has been found.
"Deniyev's relatives called us on Saturday evening and told us he had returned home. We were happy to learn that he is back home and feels well," Anastasiya Isyuk, spokesman for the ICRC's Moscow office, told Interfax on Sunday.
She declined to comment on where and how Deniyev, a worker of the ICRC's office in Grozny, had been found, noting that the ICRC had remained in touch with the authorities and Deniyev's family since he disappeared.
Deniyev left the office in Grozny's Leninsky district at about 4 p.m. Moscow time (1200 GMT) on January 13, accompanied by two unidentified persons. He had not been seen ever since.
Chechen Prosecutor Alexander Nikitin earlier told Interfax that Deniyev is being sought for.
Chechen State Council Chairman Taus Dzhabrailov said on January 14 that the law enforcement agencies are doing everything possible to find Deniyev.
The ICRC reported that Deniyev has been working with the ICRC's office in Grozny for over four years. He is married and has four children.
Meanwhile, the fate of another worker of the ICRC's Chechen office, Usman Saidaliyev, remains unknown. Saidaliyev went missing in Chechnya in August 2003.