Sulim Yamadayev
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Sulim Yamadayev is a former Chechen rebel commander who switched sides in 1999. He is now leading the GRU SPETSNAZ Special Battalion East (Vostok) of the pro-Moscow forces in Chechnya.
Yamadayev's political interests are tightly tied those of his clan, which has long-standing claims to the city of Gudermes. Together with his paramilitary soldiers, which are alleged to be unruly and prone to mix warfare with crime, Yamadayev often conflicts with Ramzan Kadyrov and Sayed-Magomed Kakiyev over who controls overall military authority in Chechnya.
There are reports that Yanadayev was involved in extortion of money from the meatprocessing factory Samson in Saint Petersburg. [1] In the last article published in her lifetime, Anna Politkovskaya claimed that according to data of the prosecutor’s office, Yamadayev's "band" also engaged in kidnapping before the legalisation. [1]
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- ^ Egor Ivanov Raid of Chechen Militsia on a Saint-Petersburg firm ended with a scandal Fontanka.Ru 18 September 2006 (Russian)
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