The Basmanny District Courtroom of Moscow announced on Monday {that a} tenth particular person, a Tajik citizen named Yakubjoni Yusufzoda, was arrested for the Crocus City Hall terror attack that killed 134 folks.
“The court docket determined to fulfill the request of the investigator of the Investigative Committee, to pick out a safety measure for Yusufzoda within the type of detention for a interval till Might 22,” stated Decide Natalia Dudar.
Yusufzoda has been accused of transferring cash to an confederate to offer lodging for the gunmen in addition to an extra switch after the assault was dedicated. He’s charged with violating Half 3 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which penalizes conspiracy to commit organized terrorism or terrorism leading to dying.
In line with the investigation, the accused, a number of days earlier than the terrorist assault, transferred cash from his financial institution card to an confederate to offer lodging for the terrorists. Allegedly, after committing the crime, he transferred a part of the funds to one of many perpetrators. Yusufzoda was charged beneath paragraph “b” of Half 3 of Artwork. 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (terrorist act dedicated by a bunch of individuals, ensuing within the dying of an individual).
Yusufzoda is charged alongside 9 different alleged accomplices who had appeared in court on March 25. The assault on Crocus Corridor was described as “essentially the most extreme terrorist incident” occurring in Russia within the final twenty years, leaving over 130 deaths. The terrorist group ISIS claimed responsibility for the assault; nonetheless, the Russian authorities has but to substantiate if the group was accountable. On Monday, Russia announced that it had demanded extradition from Ukraine of all people linked with terrorist acts. Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that “a window has been ready on the Ukrainian facet” for the fugitives to flee, too. The fugitives have been arrested close to the Russian metropolis of Bryansk, the capital of the Bryansk oblast, close to the Ukrainian border.
