Uzbek Embassy ready to bail out worker who attacked schoolboy in Moscow - newspaper
MOSCOW. Jan 16 (Interfax) - Uzbek Embassy officials have sent a letter to the court saying they are ready to support street sweeper Bakhrom Khurromov, who was arrested for attacking a 12-year-old boy in Moscow, Izvestiya reported on Wednesday.
"Today we have sent a letter to the court stating we are ready to provide guarantees for Khurromov and pay the bail for him," consul Zafar Abdurakhmanov told reporters.
In the meantime, the paper reported that the diplomats' guarantees may not save Khurromov from detention.
According to Izvestiya, the man lived and worked in Moscow illegally.
"He has no registration or work permit," a source in the police told the paper.
In such situations, suspects are placed in detention facilities even for minor crimes, the paper reported.
Despite the embassy's protection, Khurromov's release is not very probable, lawyer Oksana Mikhalkina told Izvestiya.
It was reported earlier that the Zuzino District Court in Moscow granted investigators' motion and ruled to take into custody Bakhrom Khurramov, a janitor from Uzbekistan who is suspected of inflicting bodily injuries to a pupil in southwestern Moscow.
A criminal case against Khurramov, who broke the jaw of a 12-year-old boy on January 7, was opened on charges of intended infliction of moderate bodily injuries.
Khurramov, who does not speak Russian, said through an interpreter in court that he had come to Moscow last January. He lived in Moscow's Southern Butovo area and illegally worked as a street cleaner. He claimed that he has a wife and two children in Uzbekistan.