MOSCOW, February 19 (RAPSI) – Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Friday extended the detention of all five suspects in the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, RAPSI reported from the courtroom.

Temerlan Eskerkhanov will remain in detention until March 8. Four other defendants will stay jailed until March 7.

Investigative activities have been completed but preliminary inquiry into the case has been extended until May 28. All the suspects will get acquainted with case materials, and then they would be forwarded to the prosecutor's office for indictment.

Zaur Dadayev, brothers Anzor and Shadid Gubashev, Temerlan Eskerkhanov and Khamzat Bakhayev stand charged with contract murder and illegal acquisition, carrying and keeping of weapons.

Nemtsov, 55, was murdered in central Moscow as he walked across a bridge near the Kremlin on February 28, 2015.