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A well-connected Tajik banker has been missing since June with officials saying he was kidnapped and killed by a criminal group that includes former law-enforcement officers.
Ashurov had just opened fire on two airport staff after being denied entry into the country.
A Tajikistan citizen who fatally shot two security officers at the airport in Moldova's capital last week died Monday from injuries he sustained when officers subdued him, authorities said. The attacker, who Tajikistan prosecutors later identified as Rustam Ashurov, 43, was hospitalized Friday after being seriously injured by security forces who apprehended him after the
Russia's notorious Wagner mercenary group, which carried out a short-lived mutiny on June 23-24, has stopped all recruitment.
At least four people have been detained in Tajikistan in connection with the June 23 abduction and disappearance of Shuhrat Ismatulloev, the deputy chairman of one of the country's leading banks, sources told RFE/RL on July 2.