MOSCOW, March 15 (RAPSI) – Azerbaijan has extradited Said-Khusin Takayev, a defendant in a criminal case over activities of an organized criminal group, including an attack against Russian soldiers in Chechnya, the press-service of the Prosecutor General’s Office has stated.

According to investigators, Takayev was a member of the gang. Allegedly, in 2000-2003, he was in Chechnya where he attacked representatives of regional authorities, Russian servicemen conducting anti-terrorist operations and local population.

In 2013, he was put on the wanted list and arrested in absentia.

On February 9, 2018, he was tracked to Azerbaijan and the Prosecutor General’s Office asked Azerbaijani authorities to extradite the defendant. The request was granted on February 14.