"These structures no longer exist, while those who call themselves 'Kadyrovites' are impostors and must be punished under the law," Ramzan Kadyrov said, adding that these formations had been reorganized as two interior battalions with their own commanders and that they had no relation to Kadyrov.
He said last month that over 7,000 militants had surrendered and returned to a peaceful life in the past few years.
"Since the second Chechen campaign started [in 1999], more than 7,000 militants have given up arms," Ramzan Kadyrov said. "Most of them have been amnestied and are now fighting crime, banditry and terrorism in the Chechen Republic."
Kadyrov, the son of the late president Akhmad Kadyrov, said the return of militants to peaceful life had been "President Akhmad Kadyrov's main aim."
Ramzan Kadyrov served as acting premier since previous premier Sergei Abramov was injured in a car accident in November last year and filed resignation February 28, 2006.
Akhmad Kadyrov, who fought against federal forces in the first Chechen campaign but later condemned radicalism and sided with the Kremlin, was assassinated in May 2004 during VE-Day celebrations in Grozny.
