Azeri national Orhan Zeynalov charged with murder in Moscow

PanARMENIAN.Net - Investigators have charged Azerbaijani national Orhan Zeynalov with murdering a resident of Moscow Yegor Shcherbakov, the spokesman of the Russian Investigative Committee said, according to The Voice of Russia.

"Zeynalov was charged with murder under the Russian Criminal Code Article 105," Sergei Stukalov said Friday, October 18.

Zeynalov was detained in Kolomna, outside of Moscow on October 15. Two days later, Moscow Court placed him under arrest until December 10.

The Biryulyovo district made headlines on October 13 after thousands of antimigrant protesters stormed a local vegetable warehouse, where many labor migrants work, and clashed with police.That incident followed the killing of a Russian man by a suspected migrant from the Caucasus.

On October 14, police arrested more than 1,200 migrant workers in Biryulyovo. On Tuesday, police arrested an Azerbaijani citizen suspected in the killing of the Russian man. A court in Moscow has closed the vegetable warehouse in Biryulyovo for 90 days.