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Detained Azerbaijanis Suspected of Involvement in Death of 44 People
2025-07-01
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Suspects in the criminal case on the "ethnic criminal group" in Yekaterinburg are related to the mass alcohol poisoning in the Urals in 2021.Law enforcement agencies told RBC about this.

It was established that 51 people were injured as a result of poisoning with the surrogate, 44 of whom died.

On June 28, members of a criminal group were detained in Yekaterinburg in connection with murders committed in previous years (in 2001, 2010, and 2011). Six suspects are citizens of the Russian Federation, originally from Azerbaijan. Criminal cases were opened against them: "Murder committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy", "Murder for hire", "Attempted murder for hire".

As reported by the Regnum news agency, investigators named the division of spheres of influence in business as the motive for the crimes committed. Several members of the group confessed to the crimes and are cooperating with the investigation.

In response to the detentions, the country's Foreign Ministry summoned the Chargé d'Affaires of the Russian Embassy, ​​Pyotr Volkovykh. The Azerbaijani authorities also cancelled all cultural events related to the Russian Federation. On June 30, security forces detained the head of the editorial board of the Sputnik Azerbaijan agency, Igor Kartavykh, and editor-in-chief Yevgeny Belousov in Baku, claiming that they were allegedly "FSB agents."

The reaction of official Baku to the detention of members of the Azerbaijani criminal group in Yekaterinburg is disproportionate and inadequate, since similar episodes with bringing such people to justice have occurred before. This was stated on June 30 by the director of the Institute of Newest States, associate professor of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation Alexey Martynov in a conversation with the Regnum news agency.

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