Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport owner Dmitry Kamenshchik detained

As a result of the Investigative Committee’s findings into the fatal suicide bombing in 2011 at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, the principal registered owner, Dmitry Kamenshchik has been detained by law enforcement officers and faces being charged with operating premises with inappropriate security measures. Domodedovo airport witnessed a terrorist attack on Jan. 24, 2011, where 37 people were killed and a further 172 injured. Earlier this month and prior to Kamenshchik’s detainment, three other men connected with the airports security operations had also been arrested. Kamenshchik himself could face being arrested under charges of introducing a new system for checking people entering the airport, changes which investigators believe weakened security at the airport.
At a briefing earlier this week and while showing documents and video footage, Kamenshchik dismissed the committee’s charges against the three other men, telling reporters there was “no crime.” Kamenshchik also confirmed at a press conference on the 17th Feb. that his possible arrest will have no influence on Domodedovo’s investment program.
The suicide bombing was the second terrorist incident to have taken place at the airport. In 2004 two planes, Volga-AviaExpress Flight 1353 and Siberia Airlines Flight 1047, were each hijacked shortly after take-off on the evening of Aug. 24, both subsequently being blown up, killing all 43 and 46 passengers on board respectively.