FORMER CHECHEN OFFICIAL SLAIN IN MOSCOW
By empty (6/25/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
An assailant on a motorcycle reportedly ambushed former Chechen Deputy Prime Minister Lieutenant General Yan Sergunin and his Chechen wife as they left a restaurant in downtown Moscow in the early morning hours of 25 June, leaving Sergunin dead and his wife wounded, RTR, NTV, and other Russian media reported the same day. Authorities are searching for the escaped killer, whom they believe to be a \"paid killer,\" according to NTV. Investigators are following a possible \"Chechen trail\" because witnesses reported seeing two \"Caucasian-looking\" men surveilling Sergunin in the days prior to the killing.Visit also
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