DUSHANBE, May 31, 2015, Asia-Plus – The body of the 46-year-old Warrant Officer Jourabek Doustov, who had served as an inspector with the Special Department at the Penitentiary System of the Ministry of Justice of Tajikistan, was found in the river in the Luchob area, the outskirts of Dushanbe on May 29.  He was buried on the same day.

The Penitentiary System of the Ministry of Justice has not yet provided any details of the incident.

We will recall that the warrant officer disappeared on May 8 sparking alarming reports.   

Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service reports that Jourabek Doustov disappeared on May 8 after telling his wife he would go to a wedding of his colleague.

Doustov’s wife, Faroghat Kholova, told Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service on the same day that she does not believe that Doustov could go to Syria.

Doustov’s relatives and friends also dismissed suggestions that Doustov, who has 23 years of experience of work with penitentiary institutions, could leave for Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants there as “baseless.”