TAJIK EX-INTERIOR MINISTER MAY BE CHARGED WITH MURDER

Monday, 28 July 2003

TAJIK EX-INTERIOR MINISTER MAY BE CHARGED WITH MURDER

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Former Tajik Interior Minister Yakub Salimov may be charged with organizing several murders, an Interior Ministry source told Interfax on Saturday. Salimov is suspected of involvement in killing top officials and in an abduction in August 1997 in Uzbekistan. Russia\'s Federal Security Service (FSB) detained Salimov on June 30. The Prosecutor General\'s Office issued a pertinent instruction in line with a Tajik request made in 1997. The suspect is being held in the Lefortovo remand facility. Tajik law enforcement agencies launched a criminal case against Salimov under several articles of the Criminal Code, including attempted state coup and hostage-taking. During the 1992-1993 civil war, Salimov was in charge of a Popular Front unit. The Supreme Council appointed him interior minister in December 1993. Salimov was named ambassador to Turkey in 1995 and served there for over a year. Until 1997, Salimov headed the Customs Committee. Together with other Tajik officers, Salimov attempted a rebellion and fled after the coup failed. (Interfax)

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