Uzbekistan says told West that Stockholm conflict think was IS recruit
People lay flowers nearby a crime stage during Ahlens dialect store in Drottninggatan in Stockholm. PHOTO:REUTERS
Uzbekistan’s confidence services had warned a western fan before final week’s lethal lorry conflict in Stockholm that a suspected perpetrator was an Islamic State recruit, a foreign minister Abdulaziz Kamilov pronounced on Friday.
Kamilov told reporters that Rakhmat Akilov had been recruited by a jihadist organization after he left a Central Asian republic in 2014 and staid in Sweden.
“According to a information that we have, he actively urged his compatriots to transport to Syria in sequence to quarrel during Islamic State’s side,” Kamilov said, adding that Akilov had used online messaging services.
“Earlier (before a attack), information on Akilov’s rapist actions had been upheld by confidence services to one of a Western partners so that a Swedish side could be informed.”
Kamilov did not brand a surrogate nation or organisation.
A orator for Sweden’s confidence military declined to criticism on Kamilov’s statement. Police pronounced final week that they had comprehension on Akilov in 2016 that they could not verify.
An Uzbek confidence source pronounced on Wednesday that Akilov had attempted to transport to Syria in 2015 to join IS though was incarcerated during a Turkish-Syrian limit and deported behind to Sweden.
The source combined that in February, Uzbekistan authorities had put him on a list of wanted people suspected of eremite extremism.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1383986/uzbekistan-says-told-west-stockholm-attack-suspect-recruit/