“I am forced to protect my good name, former Deputy Prime Minister of Tajikistan, Jamoliddin Mansourov, who had also served as head of the Hisor district and mayor of Dushanbe in the 1990s, told Asia-Plus in an interview commenting on accusation brought against him by Hisor resident Badriddin Safaraliyev.
Recall, Badriddin Safaraliyev says Jamoliddin Mansourov, who had been the commander of the pro-government Popular Front in the Hisor district in early 1990s, in late 1992 killed his father Rahmon Safaraliyev, who was an imam (a worship leader) of one of mosques in the Hisor district.
Mansourov denies the accusation as absolutely baseless.
“I was summoned to the prosecutor’s office for questioning and acquainted myself with the application filed by Badriddin Safaraliyev. I do not need to justify myself because I have nothing to do with that crime. But now I am forced to protect my good name,” Mansourov said.
He further added that he even had not known Rahmon Safaraliyev. “The situation had been unstable in the district that time. But I remember well that I had not summoned Rahmon Safaraliyev to the Popular Front staff,” said Mansourov. “Moreover, I was outside Hisor from December 26 to December 31.”
Meanwhile, Badriddin Safaraliyev says that Jamoliddin Mansourov, the former head of the criminal investigation section at the Hisor police department Bahrom Suvanov, the former deputy commander of the Popular Front in the Hisor district Lutfullo Rouziyev and the deputy chief of the pretrial detention facility of the Hisor police department Kamoliddin Burhonov were involved in the murder of his father.
In early 1990s, Rahmon Safaraliyev (Hoji Abdurahmopn) had worked with the Hisor district waterworks and had been an imam of one of mosques in the Hisor district. On December 30, 1992, he was reportedly taken to the staff of the Popular Front in the Hisor district where he was shot to death. He son says that the Popular Front militants had permitted him to take his father’s body only after he gave them 60,000 Soviet rubles.
The Hisor prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation following an application by Badriddin Safaraliyev and Jamoliddin Mansourov has already been questioned, a source at in the Tajik law enforcement authorities told Asia-Plus in an interview on October 10.
According to him, Rahmon Safaraliyev’s body was exhumed on October 5 and the exhumation results will be published after the completion of all necessary procedures.
Representatives of the Hisor prosecutor’s office confirmed that Jamoliddin Mansourov had already been questioned in the framework of the investigation.
Investigation is under way.
