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The North Caucasian Federal District Main Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee continues investigating a criminal case over encroachment on the life of First Secretary of Consular Department of the Russian Embassy in the Republic of Abkhazia Dmitry Vishernev and murder of his wife Olga Visherneva (Article 277, Part 3 of Article 30, paragraph "a" of Part 2 of Article 105, Part 1 of Article 222 of the Criminal Code).

On September 20, 2013, another suspect of the said crimes Iskhan Sabanchiyev, born in 1988, was detained in the city of Nalchik. The court ruled to place him in custody.

At present it is being decided on surrender by Georgian authorities a Chechen national Yusup Lakayev, who, investigators believe, is also involved in the crime and is now in detention in Georgia.

As it was earlier reported, the attack on the staffer of the Russian Embassy in Abkhazia and his wife was committed on September 9 in the yard of a house in Nazadze Street in the City of Sukhumi. The perpetrator tried to set off a bomb planted near the garage, but when failed, gunned down the victims. Dmitry Vishernev was killed on the spot, his wife died in the hospital five days later. Investigation is ongoing.

Head of Media Relations                                                                                                 V.I. Markin