Friday, February 18, 2005

Convicted Russia agents 'missing

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A Russian official has said that the whereabouts of two Russian agents convicted in Qatar of assassinating a former Chechen president are unclear. Yuri Kalinin, an official with Russia's prisons authority admitted the men were not being held in any of his jails. The two men were given a life sentence in Doha last year, for planting the car bomb that killed Zelimkhan Yanderbiyev. Mr Kalinin suggested the two intelligence agents may be undergoing medical treatment, but had no further information. And, in perhaps his most telling comment, he added that a sentence handed down in Qatar was irrelevant here in Russia.

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