06 October 2008, 18:19

Four persons are suspected as customers of Politkovskaya's murder

Petros Garibyan, leading inspector in the case, senior inspector for especially important cases of the Investigatory Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office, has stated that from two to four persons are suspected as customers of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

We remind you that on October 2 the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia reported that the criminal case on Anna Politkovskaya's murder was delivered to the court. The case will be considered with participation of a board of jurymen.

According to Mr Garibyan, now the investigation "is very closely dealing with suspected customers", moreover, "the range of suspects is not too broad."

In his interview published today in "Novaya Gazeta", Petros Garibyan said that one of the accused persons - Sergey Hadjikurbanov - had organized the murder, and brothers Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudovs were accomplices: one of them chased Anna Politkovskaya and informed the other about her whereabouts.

In the version of the inspectors, the main motive of Politkovskaya's murder was her professional work as a journalist. "Since Anna wrote rather tough articles on acute topics, the professional motive is naturally linked with politics. If we speak about these three defendants, no personal motives or convictions are the point. They're from another category of people, whose certain interest was money," Mr Garibyan has emphasized.

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