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By Christian Lowe and Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) - Suggestions that Russian politician Boris Nemtsov was killed by Chechen Islamists are nonsense designed to deflect suspicion from President Vladimir Putin, a colleague of the slain opposition figure said on Monday. Investigators have charged two men including a former Chechen police official over the shooting of Nemtsov on Feb. 27, the most high-profile killing of a political figure since Putin took power in 2000. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said the ex-policeman, Zaur Dadayev, was a pious Muslim who had been angered by publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Nemtsov had condemned an attack on Charlie Hebdo in which Islamist militants killed 12 people in January.
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