A court in the city of Yekaterinburg on Wednesday positioned six ethnic Azerbaijani men in pre-trial detention over a decades-old murder case, days after the deaths of 2 Azerbaijani detainees in Russian custody stimulated a bitter diplomatic row in between Moscow and Baku.Law enforcement authorities initiallyarrested more than 50 people on Friday in connection with the unsolved murders of Azerbaijani businessmen in Yekaterinburg dating back to the early 2000s, according to regional media.Russian investigatorssaid six ethnic Azerbaijani men with Russian citizenship four of them with the last name Safarov were ultimately jailed.
They claimed one man died of a cardiac arrest during the mass arrests which the second death remained under investigation.The bodies of the two deceased guys, brothers Ziyaddin Safarov, 55, and Huseyn Safarov, 60, were flown to Baku.
An Azerbaijani autopsy concluded both had passed away from serious blood loss and shock brought on by substantial physical injury.
Azerbaijans Prosecutor Generals Office opened a criminal examination into what it described as their harsh and deliberate murder.On Wednesday, the Leninsky District Court in Yekaterinburgplaced the 6th and last offender of the murder case, Shakhin Lalaev, in pre-trial detention up until July 19, according to the Kommersant business newspaper.Kommersant, citing anonymous sources, formerly reported that an ethnic criminal group had supposedly engaged in racketeering, drug trafficking and prostitution in Yekaterinburg considering that the late 1990s.
According to the newspaper, that organized criminal offense group is thought to be linked to the 2001 stabbing death of regional businessman Yunus Pashayev, the 2010 attempted murder of businessman Fehruz Shirinov and the 2011 shooting death of veggie warehouse owner Ikram Hajiyev.Meanwhile, on Tuesday evening, armed law enforcement agentsin Yekaterinburg violentlyarrested the head of a regional Azerbaijani diaspora group, with video on social networks revealing security agents smashing the windows of his SUV and dragging him from the vehicle.Local mediareported that the diaspora leader, Shakhin Shykhlinsky, was interrogated as a witness in the ongoing cold case murder examination and subsequently released from police custody later on that night.Moscow on Tuesday summoned Azerbaijans ambassador and accused Baku of taking intentional actions to take apart bilateral relations, Russias Foreign Ministry said in a statement.Baku said its ambassador had actually revealed severe concern about the illegal actions of Russian cops and using torture during the detention of Azerbaijani residents.