Seven years ago, on April 11, 2016, at the bus station in the city of Saky, unknown persons abducted Crimean Tatar Arsen Aliev. The Crimean Tatar Resource Center has a video showing a man being pushed into a car and taken away in an unknown direction. Despite the fact that a criminal case was initiated in the occupied Crimea on kidnapping, Aliev’s whereabouts have remained unknown for the seventh year.
On April 11, 2016, at 10 am, Arsen Aliev left Bakhchysarai for the city of Saky for the funeral. At 12 o’clock he called his friends, asked to meet him at 12:20 at the bus station in the city of Saki. Since then, the phone has been disconnected, and there is no information about it. At 16 o’clock, an SMS message was received stating that the subscriber was online, but the phone was immediately turned off, it was not possible to get through. The Crimean Tatar Resource Center has a video showing Arsen Aliev being pushed into a car and taken away in an unknown direction.
The so-called Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Crimea opened a criminal case under part 1 of article 126 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (kidnapping), but there are no results of the investigation and the whereabouts of the Crimean Tatar remains unknown.