MOSCOW, June 6 (RIA Novosti) - Notary Fail Satretdinov detained 10 days ago is not involved in killing Paul Khlebnikov, the chief editor of the Forbes magazine's Russian edition, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office told RIA Novosti on Monday. According to the source, the notary was detained on some other suspicion.
"He is accused of masterminding the murder of a businessman" in November. Musa Vakhayev and Kazbek Dukuzov were detained as suspects in this murder and the murder of Khlebnikov.
Satretdinov is now in custody, the source said.
Paul (Pavel) Khlebnikov, 41, was murdered in Moscow on July 9, 2004. He was an American national, a New Yorker, who had worked for the Forbes since 1989.
According to investigators, Vakhayev and Dukuzov are known to have driven to the journalist's office on Dokukina street in a Zhiguli car with a false numberplate and made at least ten shots at him from a Makarov pistol.
The suspects were arrested by Belarussian police in Minsk on November 17 last year and extradited to Russia.
On Saturday, June 4, Russian media reported on the arrest of a new suspect in killing Khlebnikov. A source in the Moscow law enforcement bodies said, "A new person involved in the case has surfaced." He gave no more details on the arrest.
The Prosecutor General's Office has neither confirmed, nor refuted the arrest.
