
The courts in Moscow and St. Petersburg arrested eight suspects of involvement in the terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro. This is reported by Interfax.
In Moscow, the Basmanny District Court arrested a citizen of Tajikistan in 1978 by Sodik Ortikov and a citizen of Uzbekistan Shokhist Karimov until June 3.
According to the investigation, the alleged suicide bomber Akbardzhon Jalilov repeatedly called Ortikov to the mobile. In addition, representatives of the Investigative Committee note that the house at Ortikov at the search found a Makarov pistol, two Tyotilly checkers and a grenade F-1. Ortikov did not plead guilty and stated in court that the prohibited items belong to his acquaintance, who left for Uzbekistan.
Ortikov works as a cook in the Lesnoye cafe in Moscow. There is also another person involved in the business of Shokista Karimov. According to the TFR, the house of Karimova stored a grenade and details of the bomb . The lawyer Karimova claims that these subjects were thrown by her.
In St. Petersburg, the Nevsky District Court arrested until June 5 a 23-year-old native of Uzbekistan Azamzhon Makhmudov , a 23-year-old native of Kyrgyzstan Ibragzhon Ermatov , a 20-year-old native of the Kyrgyz city of Osh Dilmurod Muidinov, a 39-year-old native of Kyrgyzstan Seyfull Khakimov, 39-year-old citizen of Kyrgyzstan Bahram Ergashev, 21-year-old native of Kyrgyzstan and Russian citizen Mahamadyusuf Mirzaalimov. All of them were detained in an apartment on a friendly prospectus.
Makhmudov was Jalilov’s neighbor on an apartment on a friendly prospectus in St. Petersburg, worked as a builder and was engaged in plaster work. The TFR claims that during a search in the apartment there was a homemade explosive device similar to the uprising metro station in the metro station.
Another neighbor Jalilova Ermatov is a utility worker. At the trial, Yermatov said that he worked with Dzhalilov in the same company. According to him, he does not know where the explosives came from in the apartment.
Detained in the same apartment on a friendly prospectus. Muidinov has 9 classes of education and worked as a cook in Sushivok. Muidinov said in court that he had chronic bronchitis and a spinal hernia.
Khakimov unofficially worked at a construction site. At the trial through the translator, he said that he had a second group of disability for heart disease and suffered a heart attack.
Ergashev worked in St. Petersburg at a construction site. In court, he could not recall the address of his registration.
Mirzaalimov worked unofficially in St. Petersburg, lived in the same apartment in a friendly.
On Thursday, the Investigative Committee announced the detention in Moscow and St. Petersburg of eight friends of Jalilov , who may be involved in explosions in the St. Petersburg metro. It was noted that weapons and explosives were discovered in the places of residence of the detainees.
The explosion in the St. Petersburg metro occurred on Monday. 14 people became victims, more than 50 were injured. The next day, the TFR said that the attack was committed by Jalilov - a 22 -year -old native of the Kyrgyz city of Osh, a citizen of Russia. According to the information of the investigation department, he laid a bomb on the "Square of the Uprising". This bomb, however, did not work.
In the evening, on Tuesday, unofficial information appeared that during a search in the apartment of the alleged suicide bomber, no suspicious objects, including components of explosive devices, were found. In this regard, it was suggested that Jalilov had accomplices, who supplied him with a bomb. On Thursday, the interlocutor of Interfax called the presence of accomplices obvious. In addition, he said that although there were no components of bombs in the apartment of the deceased, traces of explosives were still discovered there.