A murder of another Chechen two hours ago, this time in Austria. Sources tell me the victim was another Kadyrov critic. Motive unconfirmed yet, stay tuned. .
Unconfirmed report that the killer was captured after a manhunt for a blue car. Killer is a Chechen residing in Linz.
More details coming in...pending confirmation: the victim - a former Kadyrov security officer who had been entrusted with political murders, but turned renegade when he warned Adam Osmaev and Amina Aboueva, living in Ukraine, that they are next on the kill list.
In an interview, the victim Mamihan Umarov (known as Anzar), had said he had been offered $2 m to kill Osmaev, his wife and a Ukrainian MP who had shot a pistol round at a Kadyrov's portrait. The contract came from Delimhanov, Kadyrov's right-hand man and Russian MP. 
Last year, the victim (left) testified against Delimhanov and Kadyrov at a session with Ukrainian investigators held at the Ukrainian embassy in Vienna. Photo from the embassy, with target, MP Moseichuk (right)
Ukrainian security services then decided to play along with Kadyrov: they gave "Anzar" a candidate for the murder, a former Ukrainian officer who fought in Donbass, and who fit the profile. Anzar passed to Kadyrov's people the candidate name + "surveillance" videos of his targets
Anzar was able to even get Kadyrov's people to send an advance of 20k to buy weapons for the "Killer" - who even had to send his passport photo, and a wikipedia entry about him, for their approval. This way they ID'd Kadyrov's courier, living in Vienna.
The alleged courier - called Surho and living in Vienna - got the money from Chechnya and traveled to Kyiv to pay them to the "killer".. Anzar kept recordings and DMs and passed them on to Austrian police and Ukraine intel.
The plan, Anzor was told by Ukrainian intel, was that they should stage the MP's murder and report it on TV so that info about the "operation success" would get back to Kadyrov, and the full chain client->accomplices>couriers would get exposed.
However, the whole operation came to a standstill after the personnel changes in Ukraine's intel services following the change of presidents. This left Anzar totally exposed.. Not only could he not "organize the murder", but his Ukraine visa was revoked, and he couldn't hide.
At about the same time when it became clear Anzor's "assassination plan" on Adam Osmaev and the MP is failing, FSB colonel Igor Egorov began negotiating with another killer - again, targeting Osmaev. We wrote about this here: bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
Left stranded in the midst of this high-stakes, high-risk situation, Anzor had no alternative but to go public with what he did - hoping to get the protection of publicity - and of Austrian law enforcement. He gave this tell-all interview in February. .
After going apostate on Kadyrov, there was no doubt that revenge attempts would be made. It's mind boggling that he was left without security. Mind you, this is the second time a Kadyrov apostate gets shot in Austria.
The killer is reported to be a 47-year old, and like the victim, was a Chechen asylum-seeker in Austria. An ongoing investigation we're working on has shown a pattern of Kadyrov's machine embedding sleeper agents as asylum seekers in Western Europe.
Still, a caveat: all the info so far about the identity of the killer comes from the (pretty well informed and tight) Chechen diaspora. Austrian authorities still haven't made an announcement on the name of the detainee(s). Once they confirm, I will release photo+more details
