Astana expels 3 suspected terror accomplices to Uzbekistan

Interfax November 3 Kazakhstan has expelled three people suspected of helping to organize acts of terrorism last spring to Uzbekistan, a source in Uzbek law enforcement told Interfax on Tuesday. The Kazakh Prosecutor General's Office expelled three residents of South Kazakhstan: the brothers Abdunabi and Azamat Kadyrakhunov, and Elmurat Mammatkulov. "Defendants in the trial in Tashkent named them many times as organizers of secret meeting places and henchmen of the perpetrators of acts of terrorism in Uzbekistan," the source said. The Supreme Court of Uzbekistan tried the first group of terrorists on July 26 through August 24. In the acts of terrorism in Tashkent and Bukhara on March 28 - April 1, 14 people died and 53 were injured. In addition, 33 terrorists were killed in the explosions and in efforts to seize them. The source said the Kadyrakhunov brothers and Mammatkulov will be involved in investigative actions related to the case probed by the Prosecutor General's Office of Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan handed over to Kazakhstan two terrorists sentenced to long prison terms in relation to the investigation of a criminal case opened by the Kazakh National Security Committee, the source said.