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Business Visionaries. Hot Property. Times Events. Times Store. Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options Share Close extra sharing options. He said he had known Tamerlan Tsarnaev but had not spoken to him in years.

By Kim Murphy. Tsarnaeva said. Neighbors noticed that the parties stopped. Contact Ryan Broderick at ryan buzzfeed. Got a confidential tip? Submit it here. Along with his parents, his American girlfriend was there, and we sat together in a tiny living room that abuts the family kitchen. Allakhverdov said he had known Tamerlan in Boston, where he lived until about three years ago, and has not had any contact with him since.

He declined to describe the nature of his acquaintance with Tamerlan or the Tsarnaev family, but said he had never met the family members who are now accusing him of radicalizing Tamerlan.

He also confirmed he had been interviewed by the FBI and that he has cooperated with the investigation:. And they said they are about to return them to me. And the agents who talked told me they are about to close my case.

An FBI spokesman in Boston declined to comment on an ongoing case. One question is why members of the Tsarnaev family have made accusations about Allakhverdov. A close friend of the family in Boston said that Misha was not known to have visited Tamerlan at home. The once mysterious "Misha," dubbed by an uncle of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev as a major radicalizing influence on his nephew, tells The New York Review of Books that he was not Tamerlan's Islamic teacher, had no connection to the bomb plot and hadn't seen him in three years.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in a police operation that left his year-old brother, Dzhokhar, seriously wounded. Dzhokhar has been charged in connection with the bombing, which left three dead and more than injured.