Who is the Russian arrested in BiH: Associated with camps for Moldovans, has a Spanish passport, arrived from Turkey

Bezrukavi was arrested in the vicinity of Bosanska Krupa, and the reason for the arrest was incorrect documents, and since then he has been detained at the immigration center in East Sarajevo, from where he will be deported in accordance with the law and will be prohibited from re-entering and staying in the territory of BiH, she announced. The Service for Foreigners of Bosnia and Herzegovina added that further proceedings are being conducted in cooperation with the prosecution.

According to the Service for Foreigners, Bezrukavi arrived in Bosnia and Herzegovina from Turkey, via the Sarajevo airport.

"A man with that first and last name entered Bosnia and Herzegovina legally on February 22 with documents from the Russian Federation. However, he no longer has those documents, but has a Spanish passport and is being investigated as to whether it was forged," the Service for Foreigners told Slobodna Europa.

Russian citizen Aleksandr Bezrukavi was arrested in Bosnia and Herzegovina on suspicion of training Moldovan citizens to cause riots in that country during the elections and referendum on joining the EU.

 

Bezrukavi was arrested in the vicinity of Bosanska Krupa, and the reason for the arrest was incorrect documents, and since then he has been detained at the

immigration center in East Sarajevo, from where he will be deported in accordance with the law and will be prohibited from re-entering and staying in the territory of BiH, she announced. The Service for Foreigners of Bosnia and Herzegovina added that further proceedings are being conducted in cooperation with the prosecution.

 

According to the Service for Foreigners, Bezrukavi arrived in Bosnia and Herzegovina from Turkey, via the Sarajevo airport.

"A man with that first and last name entered Bosnia and Herzegovina legally on February 22 with documents from the Russian Federation. However, he no longer has those documents, but has a Spanish passport and is being investigated as to whether it was forged," the Service for Foreigners told Slobodna. Europe.

 

Camps in Serbia, BiH and Russia

The Minister of Internal Affairs of the Una-Sana Canton, Adnan Habibija, said that Bezrukavi was linked to the training of Moldovans to cause riots in that country, and earlier the Moldovan Ministry of Police announced that such training camps were organized in BiH and Serbia. In those camps in Russia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to the information of the Moldovan police published just a few days before the elections in that country, hundreds of young people from that country were trained to cause riots and civil disturbances, to fight against the police during the riots, but also to operate drones and plant incendiary and explosive devices. As stated, it was part of Russia's plans to destabilize Moldova and influence the results of the elections and the referendum on joining the EU.

Moldovan investigators claimed that, among other things, young people were trained to provoke destabilization, to oppose tactics of the organization for maintaining public order, to use weapons and other handy items, to produce and use incendiary items and homemade explosives, to handle drones...

In BiH and Serbia, "advanced training" was conducted for these persons, and they were held from September to mid-October, the Moldovan police claimed, stating that instructors connected to the Russian paramilitary mercenary organization "Vagner" participated in the training.

 

The Moldovan security services linked this case to the pro-Russian Shor party, which was banned as unconstitutional last year and whose founder and leader was Ilan Shor, a pro-Russian Moldovan oligarch who organized mass protests in that country in 2022 and 2023.

At that time, several names of those suspected of being involved in the training of Moldovans to cause riots were published, but the name of Bezrukavi, now arrested in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is not among them.

Where he stayed for nine months

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bezrukavi, according to RSE citing court records, was born in 1981 in Rostov-on-Don, in the south of Russia. He was twice sentenced to prison for theft, committed twenty years ago, once for two years, the other time for two and a half years. According to those allegations, Bezrukavi avoided serving a prison sentence, and because of that, a warrant was issued for him, and he was also accused of producing and selling narcotics.

The Service for Affairs with Foreigners of Bosnia and Herzegovina has no information in which locations Bezrukavi has been staying since February, and he was not in Bosnia and Herzegovina before.

By the way, the BiH Ministry of Security, headed by Nenad Nešić, after the announcement of the Moldovan police in mid-October, claimed that it had not received any official inquiries from the Moldovan authorities nor that it had received any evidence regarding the training of Moldovans in BiH.

However, the Intelligence and Security Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (OSA) claimed that Russian citizens entered Bosnia and Herzegovina several times, and that they received information about the maintenance of the camps too late.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Elmedin Konaković, also claimed that there were people coming to Bosnia and Herzegovina who "trained members of the Moldovan teams in the name and at the expense of Russia".