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Former leader of Mountain Jews give testimony in court over robbing of his home

23 June 2016 17:16 (UTC +04:00)

Simanduyev gave testimony in court, saying the raiders were masked.

“They hit my head and face, and then asked me where my money was. When Lisa wanted to scream, they stabbed her and fastened our hands and feet. They took the money and the gold, most of which belong to my children who live abroad,” he said.

One of the convicts, Eldar Avadyayev, said in his speech that he is a mountain Jew as well. He said Simanduyev had been appropriating donations to the synagogue of the Mountain Jews made by mountain Jews of other countries. “So I decided to take the money back from Boris.”

According to information, Eldar Avadyayev had made preliminary arrangement with Khalid Seyidov and Joshqun Aliyev on 6 December 2014 in order to seize the large amount of property of Boris Simanduyev, resident of Krasnaya Sloboda (Red village).

When raiding the house, they beat the house’s owner and his sister Liza Simanduyev, who showed resistance and was thus stabbed by the raiders. They then searched the house and after learning that there was 20,000 manats in the synagogue situated in Krasnaya Sloboda, they took the keys from Boris and went to the synagogue. However, he failed to open the door and returned to the house again. He smashed the safe, which was in the kitchen, and took 395,000 dollar, 91,600 manats, 28,000 rubles, and various jewelries.