Gennady Shpigun

Gennady Shpigun

General Gennady Nikolaevich Shpigun (Геннадий Николаевич Шпигун) (February 5 1947 – ca. 2000) was the Russian Interior Ministry's special representative in Chechnya.

He was kidnapped from the airport in Grozny on March 5 1999, when armed masked men boarded his plane as it was about to leave for Moscow. Shpigun's kidnappers, reported at various times to be different Chechen rebel warlords (Shamil Basaev, Arbi Barayev, Magomed Khatuev), demanded a ransom of US$15 million for his release. [http://www.vesti7.ru/news?id=624] [http://polit.ru/analytics/2006/03/22/shpigun.html]

On March 31 2000, his body was found in southern Chechnya, near the village of Itum-Kale. Neither the exact cause nor the date of his death could be determined. In June 2000 he was buried in Moscow's Preobrazhenskoe Cemetery.

External links

* [http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/63/251.html Miscalculations Paved Path to Chechen War]
* [http://www.m-necropol.narod.ru/shpigun.html Gravesite information] (in Russian)


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