A senior warlord from the notorious terror group the Islamic State (IS) was hunted down and arrested in Kyiv, Ukraine’s SBU security service announced on Sept. 9.
According to an SBU statement, the unidentified individual originally from “a post-Soviet country” is on the Interpol wanted list and belongs to the terror group’s leadership.
“It was discovered that, in the past, the arrested man was a deputy of the well-known Chechen radical Islamist Akhmed Chatayev, who is suspected of having plotted the 2016 terror attack at the Ataturk International Airport (in Istanbul),” the SBU said.
“The foreign national participated in hostilities in Syria and Iraq and was engaged in the recruitment and training of militants and in orchestrating terror attacks.”
Operatives of Ukraine’s SBU security service say they arrested an Islamic State warlord in Kyiv on Sept. 9, 2020.
In 2018, he illegally arrived in Ukraine with forged documents, the SBU said. In Kyiv Oblast, he formed a criminal group that included individuals originally from Central Asian countries.
Moreover, according to the Ukrainian special service, he continued to lead Islamic State cells abroad.
“The terrorist was arrested in the capital city,” the SBU said. “Now he is detained for 40 days, and an extradition check procedure has been launched. The SBU is also checking whether the international criminal and his fellow gang members have been engaged in masterminding terror attacks in Ukraine.”
In mid-November 2019, the SBU arrested another senior Islamic State warlord, Tsezar Tokhosashvili, known under his nom de guerre Al-Bara Shishani, in Kyiv Oblast.
