Colleagues of Akbarzhon Jalilov told Reuters about his trip “to see his uncle” in Turkey in 2015
left St. Petersburg for Turkey in 2015, where his uncle allegedly lived, told Reuters . The alleged perpetrator of the explosion in the St. Petersburg metro, Akbarzhon Jalilov , people familiar with him According to one of the agency’s sources, who worked as a cook with Jalilov at the Sushi Wok restaurant in St. Petersburg, in 2014 he began to take an interest in Islam, go to the mosque and grow a beard, but did not allow any “extremist” statements.