Nikolai Varavin said that Ibragim, 24, the husband of Basayev's sister, was the head of a militant group that had been active in the Kurchaloi, Nozhai-Yurt districts in the east of Chechnya and the central region of Urus-Martan.
He added that, according to law enforcement agencies' information, Ibragim was also traveling to the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku, where he handled financing for militant groups in Chechnya and the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia.
News that Shamil Basayev, who claimed responsibility for the 2004 Beslan school massacre and other atrocities, had died broke on July 10 when the head of Russia's Federal Security Service said the terrorist had been killed during a special operation in the North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia.
