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Dubai Police Chief Denies Russian Criminal Escaped
DUBAI - Lt Major General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, Commander-in-Chief of the Dubai Police has denied the news published by Russian News Agency saying that Russian criminal boss, Vladimir Vagin, 44, wanted for murder and awaiting extradition to Russia had escaped from Dubai prison.
Vagin is wanted internationally because there is evidence that on March 15, 2009, he stabbed a police officer in Russia, who was off-duty, in the chest.
According to the Russian News Agency, Vagin was detained on February 2 after the flight TG-0517, headed from Bangkok to Dubai, landed here. He was put in a pre-trial detention facility from which he successfully escaped. The agency said on its website that a so-called 'thief in law' Vagin is accused of murdering an off-duty officer in russia, and is therefore wanted. His escape from a detention facility in Dubai has therefore become a low blow for the Russian judicial system, and for Dubai Police as well, which hopes to find the fugitive. Lt Major Tamim said that Vagin drew suspicion from a Dubai Airport official while entering, for carrying a toy that looked like gun. But, when it was found that no crimes were recorded against him, he was released.
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Lt.Major Tamim denied the Russian News Agency report which said that a local law firm had prepared false medical evidence according to which Vagin could not be kept in custody because of having “recently undergone major abdominal surgery”.
Russian law enforcement agents and Interpol officials are in Dubai to investigate the incident.
amira@khaleejtimes.com
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