The court extended the arrest of the defendants in the murder case of previous years in Yekaterinburg

The Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg extended the measure of restraint for six defendants in the case, who are accused of murders as part of an organized criminal group. This was announced on July 16 by the joint press service of the courts of the Sverdlovsk region.

"The court has extended the measure of restraint for representatives of an ethnic criminal group," the Telegram channel says.

It is specified that the court extended the period of detention for the attackers until October 19, 2025.

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On June 28, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation announced that an ethnic criminal group had been suppressed in the Sverdlovsk region, whose members are suspected of a number of murders and attempted murders in recent years. According to investigators, people from Azerbaijan, who are citizens of the Russian Federation, are involved in crimes in Yekaterinburg committed in 2001, 2010 and 2011.

Later, in Yekaterinburg, law enforcement officers also detained the leader of the Azerbaijani diaspora, Shahin Shikhlinski. Currently, eight defendants have been arrested in the case of the Ural organized criminal group.