Akhmed Chatayev, the suspected organiser of Tuesday’s Istanbul Ataturk airport terrorist attack which claimed the lives of at least 44 people and left hundreds other injured, had the status of a political refugee in Bulgaria.
This was stated by his lawyer in Bulgaria, Veselin Georgiev, in an interview for private bTV station on Friday.
Chatayev was released five years ago by the court in Haskovo under the pressure of human rights organisations.
Later, there have been successive lawsuits against him in Sweden, Ukraine and Georgia, but these similarly ended with refusal for his extradition to Russia.
Chatayev is a Chechen separatist who recruited Islamic …read more
Source: Novinite
