Moscow police have detained Abdulkhofiz Kholmurodov, leader of a branch of the Turkestan Islamic Party, today. Counter-extremism police units of the Maryinsky Park of Moscow and FSB officers organized an operation to locate the branch, the Russian Interior Ministry reports.
The organization was recruiting and sending compatriots and natives of the Central Asian Region for training in the Afghan-Pakistani area and Arabic states.
Kholmurodov was on the interstate wanted list for overthrowing the constitutional state in Uzbekistan and extremism. He was using falsified documents in Moscow. He carried a passport of a Tajik citizen.
The police had similar operations in the Odintsovsky and Podolsky Districts of the Moscow Region on February 14, 2013. They detained two citizens of Uzbekistan who were members of the Turkestan Islamic Party.
