DUSHANBE, November 19, 2012, Asia-Plus — Russia has extradited to Tajikistan a 40-year-old Davlatsho Kuchakshoyev, who is suspected of having been involved in hostage taking in Tajikistan.
According to an official website of the Prosecutor-General’s Office of Tajikistan, Kuchakshoyev was extradited to the Tajik authorities last month. Kuchakshoyev, who had been wanted by the Tajik law enforcement authorities since 1999, is suspected of having been invovled in hostage taking.
“The investigation supposes that Davlat Kuchakshoyev, who was member of a sustainable criminal grouping, using firearms took four persons hostage in Dushanbe,” said the source. “The criminal grouping members demanded 15,000 U.S. dollars from hostages’ relatives for release of them.”
Internationally wanted Kuchakshoyev was reportedly arrested in the Podolsk district, Moscow oblast in November 2011.
We will recall that Tajik national Abdulvosit Latipov disappeared without a trace last month, just days after being released from a jail in the Russian city of Volgograd. His family believes he was abducted by Tajik security forces and transferred home to face possible torture as a suspected terrorist.
Radio Liberty reports that human rights groups in Russia say as many as 10 citizens of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and other Central Asian countries are believed to have been surreptitiously kidnapped and returned home in the past year. In each of the cases, the nationals had applied for asylum in Russia, fearing extradition to their home countries, where they were likely to face an unfair trial and even abuse.
