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| Chechen gang guilty of Nemtsov's murder | |
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| A Russian jury has found five ethnic Chechen men guilty of murdering leading opposition politician Boris Nemtsov. | |
| Zaur Dadayev shot the former deputy prime minister, a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin, in February 2015 near the Kremlin. | Zaur Dadayev shot the former deputy prime minister, a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin, in February 2015 near the Kremlin. |
| Four others acted as their accomplices. The group were allegedly promised $250,000 (£192,000) to kill Nemtsov. They all denied the charges. | |
| Nemtsov's relatives fear whoever ordered the murder will never be found. | |
| The jury in Moscow convicted the five men after more than eight months of hearings. | |
| Zaur Dadayev is a former member of an elite Chechen military unit. | |
| The other four defendants are brothers Anzor Gubashev and Shagid Gubashev, Ramzan Bakhayev and Tamerlan Eskerkhanov. | |
| A sixth man, Beslan Shabanov, died after he was detained in Chechnya. | A sixth man, Beslan Shabanov, died after he was detained in Chechnya. |
| Nemtsov was shot dead just metres away from the Kremlin on 27 February 2015. He was 55. | |
| He served as first deputy prime minister under President Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s, and later became a vocal critic of President Putin. | |
| He was shot dead as he was working on a report examining Russia's alleged role in a conflict in Ukraine. |