“A Russian man, suspected of being the perpetrator of Wednesday’s car bomb attack in Moscow, causing injury to two people, was extradited from Turkey and handed over to Russia, Russian police said Friday, accusing him of acting on behalf of Ukraine.

Evgeny Serebryakov, born in 1995 and originally from Russia’s Volgograd region in southern Russia, left Russia on Wednesday, the day of the attack, for Turkey, where he was arrested the same day in Halicarnassus at Moscow’s request.

“Serebryakov was taken to Russia and handed over to the investigators of the Investigative Committee,” Russian police spokeswoman Irina Volk said on Telegram.

Russia’s Ria Novosti news agency released a video of the Russian FSB security service in which the suspect claims to have acted on behalf of “Ukrainian secret services”, the SBU.

He adds that he had been contacted by a certain Ilya, who, according to him, “works in the SBU”, who offered him to “kill an officer” Russian in exchange for being given “Ukrainian citizenship and a fee of between $10,000 and $20,000 “, according to this video.

The case has been described as “particularly important” by Russian authorities, who have not released the names of the victims.

Russian media reported, citing police sources, that one of the victims was a Russian officer, with some media reporting that he was an officer of the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence service.

Many murders and attempted murders in Russia supporters of Russian aggression in Ukraine have been attributed to Ukrainian intelligence since 2022.