Investigators in the case of the terrorist act in the St. Petersburg metro are verifying information that the insurgent Abu Salah al-Uzai, who heads the Tawhid Wal-Jihad group, who is fighting in Syria, who comes from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, may be the customer of the crime..

The militant himself, as well as the probable performer of the terrorist act, comes from the city of Osh in Kyrgyzstan,. Ru "source in the Russian law enforcement agencies. Before the war in Syria, the future leader of terrorists lived in Petersburg and worked as a driver of the Gazelle, and then went to study with the money of a religious colleague in the Jordanian madrasah. After school, he allegedly went to Syria.

It is reported that the real name of al-Uzbek is difficult to name the source.

On the eve of the FSB director Alexander Bortnikov, answering questions from journalists, said that the "customer" of the terrorist act "is practically established".

"Yes, yes, it is," Bortnikov specified..

As reported, on April 3 in St. Petersburg on the transfer between the stations "Sennaya Ploshad" and "Technological Institute" an explosion occurred, killing 14 people, more than 50 were injured.

In the morning of April 4 it became known that Akbarzhon Jalilov, citizen of Russia, 22 years old, was being checked for involvement in the terrorist act..

He is a native of Osh in Kyrgyzstan, but has lived in Russia for several years now. After the secret police detained six more people from the Central Asian states who came to Russia to work.

Then the FSB reported on the detention of Abror and Akram Asimov, suspected of training a suicide bomber. They are natives of southern Kyrgyzstan, ethnic Uzbeks, in 2013 received Russian citizenship.

Abror Azimov refused to admit his guilt during the session of the Moscow Basmanny Court.