The Russian President and the Chechen authorities are responsible for the assassination attempts on the Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov in Sweden and other critics of Ramzan Kadyrov, according to the report of the Intelligence and Situation Centre of the European Union, the conclusions of which were voiced by journalists.
A court in Sweden on January 11 recognised Russian citizens Ruslan Mamaev and Elmira Shapiaeva as participants in the attack on a blogger from Chechnya Tumso Abdurakhmanov and sentenced them to ten and eight years in prison, respectively by the request of the prosecutor. The court acknowledged the criticism of the Chechen authorities by the blogger as the motive for the crime, but the role of the Chechen authorities was not studied in detail.
The findings from the report were reported by the Swedish public television SVT, which published this material on its website. The Swedish state security service SEPO concluded that the attack on the blogger and other critics of Kadyrov was ordered in Chechnya, the article says.
In addition, the report describes how Russia and Chechnya have developed their tools for illegal executions mentioning it in connection with the special unit of the National Guard SOBR "Terek." It also states that attempts on the life of Tumso and other Chechen bloggers would not have been possible if President Putin had objected.
Recall that in June this year, a Chechen blogger living in Austria, Said-Khusein Magomadov, survived an assassination plot in the city of Bregenz, according to police data. Two natives of Chechnya were detained in connection with the attempted murder case. The blogger is sure that the Chechen authorities are behind the assassination attempt. On July 4, 2020, in a suburb of the Austrian capital, a native of Chechnya, Mamikhan Umarov (Anzor from Vienna), was shot dead, who in his videos openly criticised and insulted Ramzan Kadyrov and his parents using profanity. This is by no means the only example of the realisation of threats against the political opponents of the head of Chechnya who fled abroad.
