Khalidov who returned to Chechnya renounces his former charges against Kadyrov of preparing murders abroad

Ruslan Khalidov has come back from Norway to Chechnya; earlier he accused President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov of organizing murders of his political opponents. In particular, Khalidov asserted that Kadyrov had personally instructed him to liquidate Magomed Ocherkhadzhi, leader of the Chechen Diaspora in Norway. Now Khalidov has returned to Chechnya and publicly refuted all his former statements.

In March this year Khalidov asserted that he was forced to commit a murder of Ocherkhadzhi by threats of physical execution of himself and his family. Moreover, Khalidov had told that Shaa Turlaev, former security boss of Aslan Maskhadov, former President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, who passed over some years ago into Ramzan Kadyrov's retinue, was his uncle and possessed his own prison in the city of Gudermes, where kidnapped militants' relatives were tortured.

According to previous Khalidov's words, the FSB of Russia had assigned Kadyrov to form a team of gunmen for committing murders abroad.

Now Ruslan Khalidov has completely disavowed all his former statements.

"People learnt in Norway from somewhere that a guy arrived who had worked for the authorities," Khalidov said on June 16 to one of local TV channels. "On January 5, I was beaten. They took all the money away from me. On the following day after I left hospital, two persons from the Diaspora came to me - Magomed Ocherkhadzhi, a representative of Ichkeria, and a certain Ahmad from Shalazhi (a village in Chechnya, - comment of the "Caucasian Knot"). They ordered me to speak out what they would tell me; and they videoed all that. I was forced to do it, that is, to smear Ramzan."

According to Khalidov, he was afraid for the life of his relatives.

He has also stated that the Chechens who now live in Norway are drug addicts. "80 percent of them are drug users. Those who have no money receive drugs free of charge. What they are doing there has nothing to do with Islam. There, they (representatives of Ichkeria, - comment of the "Caucasian Knot") raise money allegedly to help the starving mujahads. And then they buy luxurious cars and big houses, although many our people there have nowhere to live at all," Khalidov has emphasized.

An employee of one of Chechen NGOs said in his conversation with the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that Khalidov is a dishonest man.

"Even all his relatives have rejected him. It seems to me that all this mess had been initially raised by him with the aim to attract Ramzan's attention and then to cadge something for himself," said the source.

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