German court jails hitman for Berlin murder on Russia's orders

Key Facts

• Judges said they were convinced the Russian state had ordered the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili A court in Germany has sentenced a Russian man to life in prison for shooting dead a Georgian of Chechen ethnicity in a Berlin park two years ago.
• Khangoshvili (R) was a close associate of Aslan Maskhadov (L), the Chechen rebel leader killed in 2005 Prosecutors said Krasikov came up behind Khangoshvili on a bicycle and fired a shot into his torso using a silenced Glock 26 pistol.
• During the trial, prosecutors said the attacker was acting on orders from Russia, and that he belonged to a special unit of its secret service, the FSB.
• But judges who sentenced Krasikov said they were convinced that he was acting on the orders of Russian authorities.

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