DUSHANBE, March 28, Asia-Plus — Resident of the Hissor district Abdurasoul Boronov has got a long jail term for crimes committed in 1993.
The Supreme Court on March 28 ruled that Abdurasoul Boronov be given a jail term of fifteen years and that he should serve it in a high-security penal colony. The sentence followed his conviction on charges of banditry, killing and robbery.
Justice Salim Khojayev, who took in the trial, said that Adurasoul Boronov had been a member of criminal grouping numbering eight persons that had been active in the Rasht Valley in the 1990s. They were involved in killings and robberies there, the judge said.
“Seven members of this group, including Boronov, were already convicted and the last one is still wanted by police,” Khojayev said.
In the meantime, Boronov claimed that they were supporters of the Popular Front and were fighting in Rasht against the opposition forces.
Boronov was detained in Russia in January 2007 and extradited to Tajikistan in January 2008.
