Four years ago, on the 27th of August 2015, Mukhtar Arislanov disappeared in Simferopol. According to his sister Nurfie Karakash, there is a witness who saw two men in uniform push her brother into a silver van. It is possible that law enforcement officials are involved in this. As a crime was committed, a criminal case was opened in the occupied Crimea, however, the investigation did not bring any positive results and was suspended. The whereabouts of the missing Crimean Tatar still remain unknown.
Mukhtar Arislanov worked as a physical education teacher in one of the schools in the Simferopol district, namely he was a judo coach. On the 27th of August 2015, he left his home for groceries at the Zales’sky market in the city of Simferopol and has not yet returned.
The so-called Main Investigation Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Crimea opened a criminal case on the grounds of corpus delicti, according to the Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder), but the investigation did not bring any meaningful results.
After the occupation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, disappearances and kidnappings became regular practice. According to the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, during the period of the occupation, 17 people were reported missing, currently there is no information considering their whereabouts, 13 of them are representatives of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people: Valery Vashchuk, Ivan Bondareс’, Vasily Chernysh, Timur Shaimardanov, Seyran Zinedinov, Islyam Dzhepparov , Dzhevdet Islyamov, Eskender Apselyamov, Fedor Kostenko, Mukhtar Arislanov, Arlen Terekhov, Ruslan Ganiev, Marcel Alyautdinov, Arsen Aliev, Ervin Ibragimov, Rizvan Abduramanov and Einar Eupov.