60-year-old entrepreneur couple Maqsoudjon Neamatulloyev and Iboda Nematulloyeva is found brutally killed in their house in the Unji jamaot, the Bobojon-Ghafourov district of the northern Sughd province Thursday (October 19) morning.
“Their son found them killed while came to their house to wake them,” Muhsin Yusupov, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry’s office for Sughd province, told Asia-Plus in an interview.
According to him, a special group has been set up to investigate the incident. He refrained from giving further details of the incident pleading the interests of the investigation.
Meantime, the couple’s relatives say they were tortured before being killed. Their mouths were closed with scotch tape and there were traces of torture on their bodies, the relatives said.
Maqsoudjon Neamatulloyev and Iboda Nematulloyeva were running a shop at Khujand’s Panshanbe bazaar. They were frequently lending money to entrepreneurs and have many debtors.
A source at the Tajik law enforcement authorities says the criminals seized about 70,000 U.S. dollars and other valuables.
