MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Yevgeny Serebryakov, the defendant in the Moscow car bombing case, has been detained in the Turkish city of Bodrum and transported to Russia, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said Friday.
Two people were injured Wednesday morning 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 Wednesday 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 [Turkiye] 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," the FSB said in a statement.
Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya confirmed the arrest in a post on the X social media platform.
FSB officers transferred the suspect to investigators for interrogation on charges of attempted murder and illegal acquisition, transfer, storage, transportation, forwarding or carrying of explosives or explosive devices.