05 October 2010, 23:40
Suspect of false call about a bomb in Moscow-Grozny aircraft detained
Law enforcement agencies of Belarus have detained a supposed telephone terrorist, who reported about a bomb aboard the Moscow-Grozny aircraft.
The detainee was a citizen of Belarus, who on October 3 made, according to investigators, two false calls about a terrorist threat. In the interval five minutes he called the Airports Domodedovo and Vnukovo and told that the air flights No. 61 Moscow-Singapore and No. 723 Moscow-Grozny had been mined.
"Employees of transport militia have established that the calls were made from a mobile telephone of the MTS operator in Belarus. With the help of their Belarusian colleagues, investigators found out that the phone was registered on a certain Dmitry M., a 40-year-old resident of Minsk," says the website of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Both aircrafts made forced landings for the check for presence of explosive devices. The one en route to Singapore made an emergency landing in Calcutta; the second one - in Volgograd. In both cases no bombs or explosive devices were found.
Belarusian law enforcers have detained the suspect, who, as it turned out, had been already three times criminally persecuted for false messages about acts of terrorism and took mandatory treatment at a mental clinic.
