Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov | Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Uzbekistan: ‘Western partners’ had intelligence on Stockholm attacker Suspect tried to go to Syria to fight for ISIS but was returned to Sweden.

Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov said his country had passed on information about Rakhmat Akilov, the alleged perpetrator of the Stockholm terror attack, before four people were killed last week, Reuters reported Friday.

Kamilov said: "Earlier [before the attack], information on Akilov's criminal actions had been passed by security services to one of our Western partners so that the Swedish side could be informed," he said without naming which country the information was given to.

The Uzbek government had known that Akilov encouraged others to go to Syria to fight for Islamic State, Kamilov said. Akilov himself tried to go to Syria but was turned back at the border and deported to Sweden.

A source told Reuters that Uzbek authorities had put him on a wanted list of extremist suspects in February.