DUSHANBE, December 13, 2011, Asia-Plus — A genetic examination has confirmed that a man brutally killed in St. Petersburg is Tajik national Bakhtiyor Rasoulov, according to the Tajik Embassy in Moscow.
After additional testing, the body will be transported to Tajikistan in the near future, the source noted.
We will recall that beheaded body of Tajik national Bakhtiyor Rasoulov was found with numerous stab wounds in a burned-out car in St. Petersburg”s outskirts on November 16. Bakhtiyor Rasoulov, from the southern Khatlon province, had worked as a taxi driver in St. Petersburg for several years.
The brutal killing of Tajik national drew a wide public response in Tajikistan and the St. Petersburg law enforcement authorities assured that all necessary measures are taken to solve the crime.
Head of the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) Committee on Legislation and Human Rights, Mahmadali Vatanov, was sent to St. Petersburg on December 6 to monitor the investigation into the killing of Bakhtiyor Rasoulov.
Tajik parliament speaker Shukurjon Zuhurov publicly condemned the killing in late November and expressed the hope that Russian law enforcement services “will prevent such shameful acts in the future.”
