MOSCOW, October 19 - RAPSI. Investigators have asked the Lefortovsky District Court to extend until January 25 the detention of Ilya Pyanzin, who is suspected of plotting to kill President Vladimir Putin, court press secretary Yulia Skotnikova, told the Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI/rapsinews.com) Friday.

The request will be considered on October 22, she said.

In February, the Russian and Ukrainian security services reported that the suspects wanted in the case had been arrested in Odessa.
Pyanzin was extradited from Ukraine to Russia on August 27 and placed in the Lefortovsky isolation ward.

Pyanzin and fellow suspect Adam Osmayev allegedly planned to assassinate Putin after the Russian presidential elections last March. Pyanzin and Osmayev were arrested in Ukraine and charged with several crimes, including plotting to assassinate an official, organizing a terrorist act, and belonging to a terrorist organization. Both of them had been placed on an international wanted list.

A Ukraine court dismissed Osmayev's extradition appeal and upheld the Prosecutor General's Office's decision to transfer him to Russia. However, Osmayev had submitted an application to the European Court of Human Rights, which advised Ukraine to suspend the extradition proceedings. Osmayev's extradition was suspended until the Strasbourg court passed a judgment on the lawfulness of his extradition.

Ukrainian human rights lawyer Valery Kochetov of the Odessa Academy has said Pyanzin's subsequent extradition to Russia violated the European Convention on Human Rights and Ukrainian law, and his extradition only went through because he and his defense were too slow in filing an application with the Strasbourg court.

The Kommersant newspaper reported earlier that, according to sources close to the investigation, Pyanzin told the investigators during his interrogation about the terrorist organization and the crimes that it had planned to commit.

According to Pyanzin, he was involved in criminal activities against his will.

He also said it was not Chechen-born Adam Osmayev--who was arrested in Ukraine and who confessed to organizing the assassination attempt-who was behind the plans, but rather his compatriot, the late Ruslan Madayev.

Pyanzin has denied all the charges against him.