BISHKEK. April 18 (Interfax) - The Kyrgyz parliamentary committee for public order and the fight against crime and corruption intends to hear the Kyrgyz special service's report about natives of Kyrgyzstan detained in Russia on suspicion of involvement in the April 3 bomb attack in St. Petersburg's metro system at a closed-door session, committee head Mirlan Jeenchoroyev told Interfax on Tuesday.
"The State Committee for National Security has been asked to provide information on the situation in general linked with the detention in the Russian Federation of natives of Kyrgyzstan who are suspected of organizing and staging this terrorist act, including [Abror Azimov] detained by the FSB [Federal Security Service] of Russia on April 17," he said.
"As this information arrives, the committee will hold a closed-door session because there are different sensitive issues, and the openness [of the session] may hamper investigators' work," Jeenchoroyev said.
For his part, Kyrgyz Deputy Prime Minister for Security Jenish Razakov told Interfax that "if it is confirmed that it is the native of Kyrgyzstan [Azimov] who organized the terrorist act in St. Petersburg on April 3, the republic's law enforcement agencies will investigate his connections [in his home area in the south of Kyrgyzstan]."
"It is necessary to check into the connections because these connections may remain," he said.
Kyrgyz security agencies "continue to stay in close touch with the relevant Russian structures that are investigating the terrorist attack in St. Petersburg's metro system," Razakov said.
"This work continues. Our special services are interacting on an almost daily basis," he said.
The improvised bomb attack in a train car in the St. Petersburg metro system killed 15 people (including the suspected terrorist, Kyrgyz native Akbarzhon Dzhalilov) and injured over 50 others on April 3. In addition, an undetonated explosive device was found and defused at the Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro station.
Security services earlier detained eight natives of Central Asia (six in St. Petersburg and two in the Moscow region) on suspicion of complicity in the terror attack.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) press center said on Monday that one of the suspected plotters of the attack, native of Central Asia Abror Azimov, born in 1990, had been detained, but did not disclose the man's citizenship. According to the FSB, Azimov had trained the suicide bomber.
At the same time, identity details fully coinciding with the Russian FSB's data on the detained person's identity are contained in the Kyrgyz president's decree dated May 25, 2013 granting a request from a group of citizens, including Abror Akhralovich Azimov, born in the city of Jalal-Abad of the Osh region of the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic in 1990, who wanted to renounce their Kyrgyz citizenship.
The text of the decree was published on the Kyrgyz presidential website
The Russian Consulate General in Osh confirmed to Interfax that Azimov had been granted Russian citizenship in 2013.