Key Takeaways
- The FSB detained Yevgeny Serebryakov in Bodrum, Turkey, for his involvement in the Moscow car bombing.
- The suspect was delivered to investigators for further actions on attempted murder and illegal acquisition of explosives.
- The FSB worked with Turkish special forces to apprehend the suspect.
Moscow: The defendant in the Moscow car bombing case, Yevgeny Serebryakov, has been detained in the Turkish city of Bodrum and delivered to Russia, the public relations department of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Friday.
On Wednesday morning, two people were injured in a car explosion in the courtyard of a house on Sinyavinskaya Street in northern Moscow.
According to the Russian Interior Ministry, “there was a detonation of an unidentified object that was installed in the car.” The Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow told Sputnik on Wednesday that it had arrested Serebryakov in absentia.
“The Russian Federal Security Service, together with the Russian Interior Ministry and with the assistance of Turkish special forces and law enforcement agencies, detained in Bodrum [Turkey] and delivered to Russia on July 26, 2024, Russian citizen Yevgeny Serebryakov, born in 1995, who is on the international wanted list, involved in the implementation of a car bombing in northern Moscow on July 24, 2024,” FSB said in a statement.
The statement said FSB officers delivered the suspect to investigators for further investigative actions for attempted murder and illegal acquisition, transfer, storage, transportation, forwarding or carrying of explosives or explosive devices.
