Alexander Khloponin, plenipotentiary presidential envoy to the North Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), has dismissed his deputy ,General Arkady Yedelev, Kommersant reports on Monday.
Yedelev was heading the counter-terrorism headquarters in the North Caucasus. He had good ties with Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov but had tensions with Khloponin’s other deputy Vladimir Shevtsov.
Yedelev headed the section for security of strategic facilities of the Trans-Baikal department of the FSB in 1992-1998. He became the head of the operative-coordination department of the FSB in the North Caucasus in 2001, deputy head of the FSB for terrorism in 2002. Yedelev was appointed deputy minister of the interior and head of the counter-terrorism headquarters in September 2004. He started supervision of all law-enforcement affairs in Ingushetia in August 2009. He was dismissed as deputy minister of the interior on February 18, 2010. He became the deputy plenipotentiary presidential envoy to the NCFD on April 17, 2010.
