Main suspect in Nemtsov case appeals against arrest

The main suspect charged with involving in the killing of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov appealed on Thursday against his arrest.

"The lawyer of Zaur Dadayev has lodged an appeal against the court's decision to remand him in custody," Anna Fadeyeva, press secretary of the Basmanny District Court in Moscow, was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.

A Russian newspaper earlier published an interview with Dadayev, in which the suspect retracted his confession of involvement in Nemtsov's death.

However, according to the Interfax, a source familiar with the case denied that Dadayev formally retracted what he had admitted during the initial questioning.

Earlier reports said that three other suspects in the case, Anzor Gubashev, Khamzad Bakhayev and Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, have also filed appeals against their arrest.

Altogether seven suspects have been detained till now, as Russian security authorities confirmed Monday that they had detained another two suspects after the court ruled Sunday to formally arrest Dadayev and four other suspects involved in the death of the former Russian deputy prime minister.

Meanwhile, the possibility of foreign forces' involvement is also under investigation, as foreign contacts of the suspects in the case have been found.

Nemtsov, an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was shot dead at about midnight on Feb. 27 near the Kremlin at the heart of Moscow when he was taking a stroll with Anna Duritskaya, a Ukrainian model.

Putin vowed earlier to do everything to bring to justice those responsible for the assault. Endi