DUSHANBE, November 10, 2015, Asia-Plus – Russian officer stationed in Tajikistan has been arrested on suspicion of killing Tajik woman.
According to Tajik law enforcement authorities, Senior Lieutenant Ivan Shcherbakov was detained on November 9 and criminal proceedings have been instituted against him.
Tajik woman, Sh. Jabborova, was found killed in dormitory for officers of the Russian military base in Tajikistan on November 5, the source said.
“During the preliminary investigation, Shcherbakov said that he was drunk and now remembers nothing,” the source added.
It was not the first such an incident involving Russian troops and locals.
Two Russian soldiers stationed in Tajikistan were convicted of killing a Tajik taxi driver and sentenced by Russian military court to lengthy prison terms in August this year.
Fyodor Basimov, a deputy platoon commander, to 17 years in jail on August 26, while former military unit commander Ildar Sakhapov received a 13-year sentence.
The two were arrested in August 2014 after taxi driver Rahimjon Teshaboyev, 36, was found dead near the Tajik capital, Dushanbe.
An autopsy revealed that Teshaboyev, a father of three, was severely beaten before his throat was slashed.
Besides, a court at Russia’s military base in Tajikistan last month delivered a judgment over the case of Russian officer Denis Borisenko, who was charged with assaulting a Tajik taxi driver and stealing his vehicle.
Senior Lieutenant Denis Borisenko was sacked and he will pay compensation (60,000 Russian rubles (RR) to local tax driver Dilshod Khoushov.
Denis Borisenko, a senior lieutenant serving at Russia”s military base near Dushanbe, severely beat local taxi driver Dilshod Khoushov on January 24.
According to investigators, Borisenko was drunk when he attacked Khoushov and drove away in his car. Borisenko later hit another vehicle and was detained at the scene
The Russian military base deployed in Tajikistan is Russia”s largest non-naval military facility outside the country. It was officially opened in Tajikistan in 2004 under a previous agreement, which was signed in 1993, and hosts Russia’s largest military contingent deployed abroad.
A total of some 7,000 Russian troops are stationed at three military facilities collectively known as the 201st military base – in Dushanbe, Qurghon Teppa, some 100 kilometers from Dushanbe, and Kulob, about 200 kilometers southwest of Dushanbe.
