TASHKENT. April 14 (Interfax) - Tashkent warned Western partners about the illegal activity of the terrorist detained in Stockholm, Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov said.
"Earlier, Uzbekistan shared information about Rakhmat Akilov, who perpetrated a terror attack in Stockholm, with a Western partner, so that the information was conveyed to Sweden," Kamilov told reporters in Tashkent on Friday.
Uzbek law enforcement agencies were aware of the illegal activity of Akilov. He actively communicated with compatriots in the social media and urged them to take illegal actions against the authorities and the police, the minister said.
He was also conducting active propaganda, urging compatriots to join the hostilities in Syria, he said.
A source in the Uzbek law enforcement authorities told Interfax earlier that the republic's police put Akilov, suspected perpetrator of the Stockholm terror attack, on the international wanted list in February on the counts of religious extremism.
A truck was intentionally driven into the crowd on Drottninggatan Street, a major pedestrian street in Stockholm, last Friday. Four people died and 15 suffered injuries of various degrees of severity. The authorities said it was a terror attack. Two suspects were taken into custody. One of them is Akilov, 39, who is suspected of being the truck driver. A court in Stockholm ordered arrest of Akilov on Tuesday.