Gennady Shpigun
Russian general
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| Intro | Russian general | ||||||||||||
| Places | Russia | ||||||||||||
| was | Police officer Military personnel | ||||||||||||
| Work field | Law Military | ||||||||||||
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| Birth | 5 February 1947, Babayurt, Russia | ||||||||||||
| Death | March 2000Itum-Kalinsky District, Russia (aged 53 years) | ||||||||||||
| Star sign | Aquarius | ||||||||||||
| Politics: | Communist Party Of The Soviet Union | ||||||||||||
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General Gennady Nikolaevich Shpigun (Геннадий Николаевич Шпигун) (February 5, 1947 – ca. 2000) was the Russian Interior Ministry's special representative in Chechnya.
He was kidnapped from the airport in Grozny on March 5, 1999, when armed masked men boarded his plane as it was about to leave for Moscow. Shpigun's kidnappers, reported at various times to be different Chechen rebel warlords (Shamil Basaev, Arbi Barayev, Magomed Khatuev), demanded a ransom of US$15 million for his release.
On March 31, 2000, his body was found in southern Chechnya, near the village of Itum-Kale. Neither the exact cause nor the date of his death could be determined. In June 2000 he was buried in Moscow's Preobrazhenskoe Cemetery.