Yaqub Salimov

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Yaqub Salimov (Tajik/Persian: Яъқуб Салимов/یعقوب سلیموف) was a minister of the interior of Tajikistan from 1992. Before this he was the leader of a militia in the civil war. In 1997 he unsuccessfully attempted a coup d'etat. Afterwards he fled from Tajikistan. He was arrested in Moscow in 2003. On April 25, 2005, he was condemned to 15 years of prison.

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