Four more arrested in the case of the attack on Crocus City Hall

Three natives of Tajikistan and one native of Kyrgyzstan have been arrested in connection with the attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue.

On March 25 of this year, the court arrested the accused in the terrorism case — taxi drivers from Tver, Aminchon and Dilovar Islomov, as well as their father Isroil, who is a suspect in this case. All three are citizens of Tajikistan.

According to the press service of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow, a preventive measure in the form of detention has been chosen for 62-year-old Islomov Isroil Ibrohimovich, 32-year-old Islomov Aminchon Isroilovich, and 24-year-old Islomov Dilovar Isroilovich on suspicion of committing a crime under paragraph “b” of part 3 of article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Terrorist Act).

The accused deny all charges from the Investigative Committee of Russia.

According to the investigation, Dilovar Islomov was the owner of the car used by the attackers to flee. His brother and father are suspected of aiding terrorism.

According to the investigation, one of the previously arrested individuals in the case — Shamsidin Fariduni — recruited Aminchon Islomov into the organized group no later than January, and Dilovar Islomov no later than March 11.

Dilovar Islomov was born in 1999 in Dushanbe and is a citizen of Russia. He has a wife and a child and worked as a taxi driver. Aminchon Islomov is also a citizen of Russia and worked as a taxi driver in Tver, the court reported.

Mediazona reports that Dilovar Islomov sold his car — a white Renault, which was used by the suspects to flee — a week before the attack.

According to Islomov, he and his brother Dilovar — the last owner of the white Renault — went to the police themselves after learning about the attack at Crocus City Hall from the media.

The eighth defendant in the criminal case regarding the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall is Alysher Kasimov, a citizen of Russia and a native of Kyrgyzstan, who has also been arrested for two months.

It is reported that Kasimov rented a three-room apartment in Putilkovo. The advertisement stated that the apartment was rented “exclusively to Slavs.” However, the apartment was ultimately rented by Fariduni Shamsidin, one of the main defendants in the case regarding the attack at Crocus. According to his relatives, they said they came to work in construction.

At the court hearing, Kasimov stated that he was unaware of his tenants’ connection to terrorism. He rented the apartment on “Avito.”

32-year-old Alysher Kasimov is a citizen of Russia. He was born in Osh and currently lives in Krasnogorsk, and he has three children. He co-owns a teahouse with his brother.

On March 24 of this year, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested four defendants in the bloody attack at Crocus City Hall for two months. The court session was held behind closed doors. The defendants included four citizens of Tajikistan — 32-year-old Dalerjon Mirzoev, 30-year-old Saidakram Rachabalizoda, 25-year-old Fariduni Shamsiddin, and 19-year-old Muhammadsobir Faizov.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow reported that all four admitted their guilt, and as a result, they have been taken into custody for two months.

However, it is unknown under what circumstances they confessed, as videos published on social media show that they were subjected to torture and brutal beatings; even during the court hearing, they had bruises and signs of beating on their faces, one had an ear cut off, and another had a gouged eye.

The law enforcement agencies of Tajikistan interrogated the relatives of the suspects in the attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue, and on March 25 and 26, journalists from Radio Ozodi visited the homes of Muhammad Faizov, Faridduni Shamsiddin, and Saidakram Rajabali-zoda in the cities of Dushanbe, Hisor, and Vahdat, but did not find their parents or wives.

Reuters reports that an investigative team from Russia arrived in Tajikistan to interrogate the relatives of the suspects.

The head of the Islоh.net portal, Muhammadikboli Sadriddin, reported on his Facebook page about the detention and interrogation of the relatives of the suspects and stated that the authorities are forcing them to confess to crimes for which they are accused by Russian law enforcement agencies.