FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov confirmed reports that the suspect in the car bombing in Moscow has left for Turkey. He told an employee of the Shot telegram channel about this.
“[He] is in Turkey, in Turkey. He’s working with the Turks [to arrest him], he’s working, but we’ll see,” Bortnikov said.
The Investigative Committee investigating the explosion did not provide information about the person who planted the explosives. The department only mentioned that it had “established the identity of the suspect.”
An explosion of a 2009 Toyota Land Cruiser Prado jeep occurred this morning in the north of Moscow, in the courtyard of a house on Sinyavinskaya Street. According to surveillance footage, two passengers, a man and a woman, were injured. According to Moskovsky Komsomolets, which first published the names, these are 50-year-old military man Andrei Torgashov and his wife Maya.
At the same time, telegram channels began to publish data about two different military men with the same name, which caused confusion. According to Kommersant, the injured Torgashov “served in the GRU and was responsible in his unit for communications.” Interfax, citing sources, presented him as “a colonel, the head of one of the units of the General Staff.”
The “Agency” discovered in leaked databases that in 2016 Torgashov, as a senior officer in the sector, received income in military unit 45807, registered in the GRU building complex on Khoroshevskoye Shosse in Moscow. The publication “Vot Tak” adds that Torgashov from the GRU owned a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado with the number Х746МВ799, and that he lived with his wife in a house on Sinyavinskaya, 11.
At the same time, the Astra telegram channel claimed that the speech is about the deputy head of the military satellite communications unit No. 33 790. Russia Today, RIA Novosti and the Moscow region channel 360 subsequently reported that they had reached Torgashov, the deputy head of the military radio center, and his wife. Both said they knew nothing about the jeep bombing.