DUSHANBE, May 28, 2014, Asia-Plus – Leader of one of ethnic organized crime groups has been detained in an operation carried out jointly by officers from Russia’s Interior Ministry and Federal Security Service (FSB) in Moscow oblast.
According the press center of the Russian Interior Ministry’s Main Criminal Investigation Directorate, the group consisted of natives of Tajikistan and it was active in Moscow oblast.
In 2012, members of this organized criminal group reportedly attacked an office of one Moscow firms and seized 900,000 Russian rubles (RR). Criminal proceedings were instituted and three members of the group were sentenced to long jail terms. The ringleader — the 27 year-old national of Tajikistan –managed to escape.
He was arrested recently in the city of Noginsk, Moscow oblast. A fake Tajik passport was confiscated from him.
The preliminary investigation has reportedly established that he is also the head of the cell of the banned Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and he was engaged in recruiting young men from Central Asia.
