German prosecutors said on Thursday they have indicted a Russian man accused of organising the killing of a Chechen dissident living in Germany on behalf of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov.
Valid D., a member of the Chechen security apparatus, had procured a gun, ammunition and silencer and scouted the residence of the Kadyrov critic, where he was living with his brother, also a critic, in summer 2020, prosecutors said.
Valid D., whose full name is withheld from publication under German privacy law, denies the prosecutors' allegations, his defence attorney was cited by Der Spiegel magazine as saying.
