Arrested Russian nationals repatriated

The Ministry of National Security, the Prosecutor Office and the Interior Ministry of Azerbaijan issued a joint statement Tuesday to comment on the arrest of 5 Russian nationals, who were watching suspiciously the President's residence.

The law enforcers say the arrested Ramiz Yusifov, Sergey Burov, Oleg Khramov, Viktor Klochkov, and Vitaliy Chernyshev are workers of the Moscow-based Alfa-Altair security company. They are charged with using counterfeited documents, as they introduced themselves as Russian Security Service agents when being detained.

Under the agreement on legal assistance between Azerbaijan and Russia, the five were repatriated to the Russian embassy in the early hours of Tuesday night.

The Russian embassy in Baku said the arrested are not Security Service officials and their appearance outside the presidential apartment was because they didn’t know the city well. “If these pretend to be security agents, the Russian Prosecutor Office will tackle the case”, the embassy said Tuesday.*