06:27, 22 July 2017

Member of extremist organization "Muslim Brothers" detained in Abkhazia

In Sukhumi, agents of the State Security Service for Abkhazia have detained a native of Uzbekistan who confessed to be a member of the organization "Muslim Brothers", banned in Russia as a terrorist organization.

Ramazon Gufurov, born in 1967, was detained in Abkhazia. The native of Uzbekistan had a Russian passport issued in the name of Akram Allahverdan-oglu Gasanov.

Law enforcers found and seized from the detainee a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation with his photograph issued in the name of Akram Allahverdan-oglu Gasanov, with signs of forgery. The detainee has confessed to be a member of the extremist organization "Muslim Brothers" (Al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin). This was reported on July 21 in a message posted on the website of the Abkhazian State Security Service.

On July 21, the detainee was extradited to the Russian Federation for operative and investigative activities.

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