But only privileged members of the Chechen security services stroll the corridors of the VIP hotel on the corner of Yakimanka (a central Moscow street). Tactical groups of Chechen security personnel, meanwhile, operate in Moscow on a rotational basis: a few months, and then they are replaced. As a rule, they rent apartments on the outskirts and cluster there; their mission is to carry out especially delicate assignments. Those assignments include kidnappings, murders, and extortion. In between “restoring constitutional order” in Moscow, these individuals frequented the now-closed Prague restaurant, summoning sex workers there who were later treated for a long time in Moscow clinics for various physical injuries. As a rule, these delicate assignments are discussed in the lobby bar of the Renaissance Slavyanskaya hotel, the Tatler restaurant in the Ukraina hotel, and various other flashy venues where majors and captains of Russia’s Interior Ministry internal troops can afford to pull up in their Mercedeses. It was precisely in these places that, from September 2014 to February 2015, the current suspects were repeatedly seen in the company of Ruslan Geremeyev, deputy commander of the Sever battalion. Various people would come to them carrying bags, and leave with the same bags—only noticeably thinner. And, as we have learned, one such delicate assignment—if one does not count the murder of Boris Nemtsov—was allegedly carried out brilliantly by fighters from Geremeyev’s tactical group: a top Gazprom manager who had taken more than his rank allowed was abducted from a plane standing on the runway at Vnukovo-3 business aviation airport. He returned the money within 24 hours. Incidentally, according to our sources in Chechnya, Zaur Dadayev (the alleged hitman) at one time headed the personal security detail of MP Delimkhanov.
Read this excellent Novaya Gazeta article: How Boris Nemtsov Was Killed.
And here is another investigation by The New Times on the same subject: How They Killed Nemtsov.
The New Times has already published one with documents from the case file.
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