MOSCOW, December 24 (RAPSI) – Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Thursday detained five defendants in a case over racial hatred murders in the 2000s until February 22, 2021, the court’s press service told RAPSI.

Andrey Kail, Pavel Khrulev, Maxim Khotulev, Alexander Lysenko, Alexey Gudilin are charged with killing two or more people.

According to the investigation, the accused men were involved in the murder of two non-Slavic persons in 2003, whose body parts were found in one of Moscow’s districts.

On December 23, the court detained one more defendant in the case, ex-leader of the Russian Goal nationalist organization Semen Tokmakov.