Moscow, February 8 (). Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has confirmed that the suspect who shot dead top Russian military intelligence officer Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev in Moscow is in their custody. He was extradited from Dubai to Russia. After hearing, the court has also sent him to police custody.
On February 6, an unknown assailant opened fire on the General. After which he was admitted to the hospital in injured condition. Official information about this case was given by the spokesperson of the Investigative Committee, Svetlana Petrenko. He had told that the general was targeted outside a residential building in the north-western area.
Alexeyev, 64, had been serving as the first deputy head of Russia’s military intelligence agency, known as the GRU, since 2011.
According to the FSB, Lyubomir Korba, the 65-year-old attacker who targeted Lieutenant-General Vladimir Alekseyev, was detained in Dubai and handed over to Russia. He was produced before the court and sent to police custody. “The court has approved the application by an investigative committee officer seeking Korba’s detention,” a court spokesman told news agency Tass.
Tass also quoted the FSB as saying that a suspected female accomplice of the gunman has fled to Ukraine.
Following the attack, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov alleged that Ukraine was behind the assassination attempt. He also said that this was done to disrupt the ongoing peace talks between the two countries. At the same time, Ukraine said that it had nothing to do with the firing.
In fact, Admiral Igor Kostyukov, the GRU chief and boss of the injured general, is leading Russia’s delegation in talks in Abu Dhabi on security-related aspects of a possible peace deal with Ukraine.
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