A new arrest warrant has been issued
by judicial authorities for a 32-year-old Tajik citizen who was
arrested on April 8 at Rome's Fiumicino airport for allegedly
being an active member of ISIS.
Rome's Digos special security police unit on Monday served the
new arrest warrant issued by a preliminary investigations judge
(GIP) on the man, who is currently detained in the Umbria prison
of Terni, for allegedly recycling stolen luxury cars and owning
and fabricating fake passports
The 32-year-old is accused of illicitly selling on the Eastern
European market luxury vehicles that were stolen or illicitly
bought in Italy, investigative sources said.
The Tajik citizen is awaiting to be extradited to his home
country after an international arrest warrant was issued in 2018
by a judge in Rudaki, western Tajikistan, on charges of
"mercenary activities" - which carry a sentence of up to 12
years in prison under Tajik criminal law - for allegedly joining
the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria in 2014 to fight as a
militant.
After his arrest in April, police found in an electronic device
they seized from the man over 19,000 files with images of
vehicles under the category "Key Evidence - Vehicles", including
several that had been stolen in Italy and abroad, according to
an international police databank.
The man is also accused of travelling to Italy and abroad under
a fake identity with a passport issued by Ukrainian authorities,
even though his identity had been ascertained through Tajik
authorities.
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