Moscow court remands 10th suspect into custody in Crocus City Hall terrorist attack case

Moscow’s Basmanny Court has remanded a 10th suspect in the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack case, Yakubjon Yusufzoda, into pre-trial detention until May 22. Yusufzoda is a citizen of Tajikistan.

According to Russian investigators, Yusufzoda transferred money for the alleged terrorists’ accommodation to an accomplice days before the attack. (Russia’s Investigative Committee did not give the identity of the alleged accomplice.) Investigators also stated that Yusufzoda transferred money to one of the gunmen after the attack.

Yusufzoda has been charged with terrorism.

On March 28, the head of Russia's Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, announced that an unnamed “participant in the terrorist financing scheme” had been arrested. Bastrykin also claimed that the investigation had revealed that the alleged terrorists received significant amounts of money and cryptocurrency from Ukraine.

The following day, Moscow’s Basmanny Court remanded a ninth suspect, Nazrimad Lutfulloi, into custody. The charges against him are unknown. That same day, police searched the Beribit Crypto Exchange’s office in Moscow. The search was reportedly connected to the Crocus City Hall case, although the company denied this.

On April 1, Russia's Federal Security Service announced that four foreigners involved in financing and “providing means” to the terrorists had been arrested in Dagestan.