A detainee. Photo: http://nac.gov.ru/kontrterroristicheskie-operacii/cpecnazom-fsb-zaderzhan-organizator-podgotovki.html

15 November 2016, 10:43

FSB states prevention of terror acts in Ingushetia and Moscow

As reported by the Public Relations Centre of the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB), they have detained five members of the grouping associated with the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS), banned in Russia, who had been plotting terror acts in Ingushetia and Moscow. Two improvised explosive device (IEDs) having power of 10 kilos of TNT (trotyl) equivalent each were confiscated from the detainees.

"In the territory of the households, where the detainees were hiding, as well as in the hideout, power agents found five firearms, the two above IEDs and various ammunitions," said the FSB spokesman.

According to his story, a criminal case was opened against the detainees on the fact of participation in the activities of a terrorist organization banned in Russia, the TASS reports.

According to the FSB, the leader of the grouping and his five accomplices were killed in a counterterrorist operation (CTO) in Ingushetia in October, the "Interfax" reports.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.

All news
НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ООО “МЕМО”, ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ООО “МЕМО”.

November 04, 2024 21:50

November 04, 2024 20:49

  • MIA announces publicist Boris Stomakhin wanted

    Boris Stomakhin, a publicist, who has served prison terms for publications about the terror acts in Volgograd and the armed conflict in Chechnya, has been declared wanted. The RIA "Novosti", citing a source, has reported that Stomakhin is a figurant in a criminal case for spreading fake news about the Russian Army in connection with his posts in social networks.

November 03, 2024 21:30

November 03, 2024 18:18

  • Court slightly reduces sentences of Gadjiev, Rizvanov, and Tambiev

    In his final speech, Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev has requested court to fully acquit him in the case on financing terrorism. However, the military court of appeal only reduced by two months the sentences for Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Kemal Tambiev, and Abubakar Rizvanov.

November 02, 2024 22:13

  • Priest Pivovarov calls news of his death a provocation

    Viktor Pivovarov, a priest from Slavyansk-on-Kuban, has been subjected to stalking after the start of a criminal prosecution in a case on fakes about the Russian Army. The stalker threatens Viktor Pivovarov, insults him online, and disseminate false messages about him.

News archive