Detained in Russia on suspicion of recruitment - Russian citizens

12:25, 18 апреля 2017, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Anara MAMYTOVA

Detained in St. Petersburg Obid Abdyraimov, born in 1978, and Aizhigit Aitmatov, born in 1985, are citizens of the , the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the reported.

It is noted that they obtained Russian citizenship in 2007 and since then have resided on the .

Abdyraimov and Aitmatov are not citizens of Kyrgyzstan for 10 years.

Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan

According to it, at present they are being checked for involvement in extremist activities in , but according to preliminary data, there is no such information.

«Most likely, they entered or were recruited into the ranks of banned extremist organizations, when residing in ," the press service added.

Earlier it was reported that Obid Abdyraimov and Aizhigit Aitmatov were detained in . They are charged with the article «Incitement, recruitment or involvement in terrorist activities» of the Criminal Code of the .