“Wear a mask if you want, grow a beard if you want. All this does not matter.”
Evgeny Serebryakov was detained in Turkey, who is suspected of blowing up a Toyota Land Cruiser in the north of Moscow, as a result of which two people were injured. At 5.37 am he took off from Vnukovo airport on a Pegasus flight to Bodrum. Where he was detained by police units of the Mugla province. Thanks to this, it was possible to quickly catch the bomber, a forensic scientist, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Senior Adviser of Justice Anatoly Mikhailovich Kustov told MK.
The bomber was caught on all surveillance cameras. His progress was tracked. It was reliably established that Serebryakov flew from Moscow to Turkey.
— Both our special services and Interpol were involved, — says Anatoly Mikhailovich Kustov. — There were records, and then it was not difficult to find him. We are all registered. We have passports with photographs. The bomber also had a foreign passport. The facial recognition system at the airport helped, thanks to which the skull is identified. A person has characteristic features: 48 points that are inherent to him from birth. They are compared by the system, only increasing in size. And that's all.
As the forensic scientist says, these characteristic points do not change throughout life, unless the skull itself is changed.
— If you want, wear a mask, or if you want, grow a beard. It doesn't matter. These points remain unchanged until a person passes away. They are used to restore the full face. And then comes the identification. Video recordings, computer programs, artificial intelligence, and a neural network are used. Everything is identified.
Anatoly Kustov says that four seconds are enough.
— Passengers make some stops at the airport. Their passports are checked, they go through the security system, and so on. There is enough time.
Employees of the Russian division of Interpol contacted their Turkish colleagues. They gave them operational information. The bomber was found using CCTV footage. Everyone worked very quickly.
— Interpol, the international criminal police organization, — single database. The suspect was found, detained, identified, everything matched. Now the investigation will sort it out.