DUSHANBE, December 6, 2013, Asia-Plus – Five men, who introduced themselves as police officers, took a Tajik national from the detention center for illegal migrants in Russia’s Tver oblast by force, Russian TV channel NTV reported on December 5.

According to Rossiyskaya Gazeta , the Investigative Committee has launched a pre-investigative probe into the incident that took place on December 3.

The Russian Interior Ministry reportedly says that five unidentified men in police uniform drove the abducted person in an unknown direction.

“The abducted person is the 34-year-old man, he has the refugee status,” Rossiyskaya Gazeta quoted Murad Alimuradov, the acting chief of the Vyshnevolotskiy department of the Investigative Committee’s office for Tver, as saying.

According to the preliminary data, the abducted person is wanted by Tajik law enforcement authorities for organizing criminal grouping.