German prosecutor charges Russian man in Berlin with contract hit on former leader of Chechen insurgency, links affair to Moscow

A German prosecutor has

A German prosecutor has accused an official Russian entity of hiring an assassin to kill a former Chechen insurgent leader in Berlin. Moscow denies any ties to the murder, saying the victim was a terrorist who had many enemies.

The high-profile murder happened in Berlin’s Tiergarten Park last August. The victim, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, was gunned down by a man identified by German authorities as Vadim K., who failed to flee from the scene and was arrested after the killing.

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