The Federal Security Service reported on Thursday that Mukhammadyusup Ermatov, who was linked to terrorist Akbardzhon Jalilov, detained himself in Moscow in April. Law enforcers call him a key suspect in the case of the terrorist attack in St. Petersburg. Ermatov incriminated illegal turnover of explosives, RIA Novosti reports..

Sources "Newspapers. Ru "in the power structures told that the detainee also had to become a suicide bomber, but at the last moment he refused to self-extract. When he realized that the siloviki were on his trail, he went into the run, explained the source of the publication. The younger brother of the detainee Ibrahim Ermatov, who was also part of this terrorist group, tried to provide an alibi to his brother by contacting the police with a statement about his disappearance, investigators believe..

Muhammadyusup Ermatov disappeared from the sight of law enforcement on the eve of mass detentions of suicide bombers Jalilov. While there is still another accomplice of the alleged terrorists - 24-year-old Farrukh Tadjibaev. A friend of Akbarzhon Dzhalilov worked as a cook in Moscow, and is now on the federal wanted list on suspicion of terrorism. Special services believe that Tajibayev was a liaison and supervised the actions of Jalilov before the explosion in the subway. After the explosion in the subway, he disappeared.

The Ermatov brothers are from the village of Kashgar-Kyshtak in the Osh region and are fellow countrymen of the Syrian field commander Abu Salah al-Uzai, whom the intelligence agencies suspect of involvement in the terrorist act in the metro of St. Petersburg.

The explosion in the car of the train on the runway between the stations "Sennaya Ploshchad" and "Technological Institute - 2" thundered on the afternoon of April 3. As a result, 16 people were killed, including Jalilov himself. Another bomb, found at the station "Ploshchad Vosstaniya", was able to neutralize.

In total, on suspicion of involvement in the terrorist attack, courts in Moscow and St. Petersburg arrested 10 people.