An Ingushetia resident has been charged with assaulting police officers in 1999.

Investigators have linked a prisoner in a Primorsky Krai penal colony to an attack on security forces committed in Ingushetia in 1999. The prisoner faces a new sentence for the attempted murder of law enforcement officers.

The attack on police officers, for which the 56-year-old man is accused, took place more than 26 years ago, in October 1999.

According to investigators, the accused shot at police officers with an automatic weapon at night at the intersection of the Mozdok-Vladikavkaz and Nazran-Kantyshevo highways. One police officer was killed on the spot, and the second was seriously injured and hospitalized.

Investigators described the purpose of the attack as "obstructing lawful public order activities." The attacker fled immediately after the incident, but his identity was established and he was arrested in absentia.

Fingerprints linked the accused to an inmate at a maximum-security penal colony in Primorye, who had been held there since 2015. After attacking the police officers, the man acquired a fake passport and subsequently entered the penal colony under different identification information, according to a statement from the republic's Investigative Committee.

The man has been charged with attempted murder of law enforcement officers (Article 317 of the Criminal Code) and using a fake passport (Part 3 of Article 327 of the Criminal Code). The case, with an approved indictment, has been sent to court.