Would-be Putin assassin wanted to kill Kadyrov

The Ukrainian security services refused to comment on media reports that the man suspected of being involved in an assassination plot against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin planned to murder Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov too. Adam Osmayev was arrested in Ukraine on suspicion of plotting the assassination of Vladimir Putin and now the Kommersant newspaper reported on its website on February 27 that he had already been arrested in 2007 in Moscow for plotting to kill Kadyrov and put on the international wanted list. “We have no comment on this,” a source in the Ukrainian security services told RIA Novosti. Citing a police source in Odessa, the Ukrainian newspaper Segodnya reported on Tuesday that Osman was going to kill Kadyrov in summer, 2011, during a boxing match that Kadyrov wanted to attend but he never showed up at the event. After weeks of interrogation, the arrested men confessed they had planned to assassinate Putin in Moscow after the March 4 presidential elections, Russia's Channel One television reported on February 27. Osmayev and two other conspirators were detained in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa in early January following an explosion in their rented apartment. The TV report, which features Osmayev’s interrogation, claims the militant is now cooperating with investigators in the hopes of avoiding extradition to Russia.