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Russia Charges 3 in Twin Plane Bombings
Fri Sep 24, 2:56 PM ET
MOSCOW - Prosecutors charged three people Friday in connection with last month's bombings of two Russian airliners, the Interfax news agency reported.
The two planes blew up almost simultaneously on the night of Aug. 24, killing 90 people.
It was the start of a series of deadly terrorist attacks blamed on Chechen rebels that killed nearly 440 people, including the school siege in the southern city of Beslan.
Police Capt. Mikhail Artamonov, arrested earlier this month, was charged with negligence that led to fatalities, Interfax said, quoting prosecutors. Artamonov is accused of releasing the two women suspected of carrying bombs onto the planes without inspecting their belongings.
Two patrolmen had turned the women over to him, presumably because of their Chechen ethnicity, which often results in extra police checks.
After being let go, the women allegedly obtained tickets from a ticket scalper at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov said earlier this month. The scalper then gave part of the money he received from the women — equivalent to $34 — to an airline employee to get them on the planes, Ustinov said.
The airline employee, Nikolai Korenkov, and the ticket scalper, Armen Arutyunian, were arrested earlier this month. Both were charged Friday with complicity in terrorism, Interfax said.