Russia offers €7.9m for information on diplomat killers

Russia today offered a €7.9m reward for information on the killers of five Russian Embassy staff killed in Iraq.

“For information which will lead to the result being achieved, the National Anti-terrorist Committee of the Russian Federation will pay a reward of €7.9m,” said the head of the Federal Security Service, Nikolai Patrushev, according to the RIA-Novosti news agency.

President Vladimir Putin has ordered special forces to hunt down and “destroy” the killers of the embassy workers.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry confirmed on Monday that the four Russians who were seized in early June had been killed.

A fifth employee was killed during the abduction.