A citizen of one of the Central Asian republics who may have been in touch with the perpetrator of the April 3 terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro system has been detained in Moscow, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said.
“The FSB of Russia, as part of a separate investigative instruction by the Russian Investigative Committee, carried out a search operation in Moscow on May 11 and detained a citizen of one of the Central Asian republics, M.B. Ermatov, involved in illegal turnover of explosive substances, who acted as a connection of the suicide bomber Agbarzhon Dzhalilov who detonated an improvised explosive device in the St. Petersburg subway on April 3,” the FSB told Interfax on May 11.
Currently a set of measures and inquiries are in place “to check Ermatov for involvement in the terror attack that is being investigated,” the FSB said.
