The Russian security services (FSB) announced today that the people arrested on Sunday in Dagestan and accused of preparing an attack are related to the perpetrators of the recent attack on the concert hall near Moscow.
The National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAK) announced on Sunday the arrest of three people who planned to “commit a series of terrorist crimes”, ten days after the Crocus City Hall attack, which left at least 144 dead.
The Russian security services, which reported four arrests on Sunday, said today that the foreign citizens “prepared a terrorist act in public places in Kaspiisk”, a city located near the capital of Dagestan, the unstable Russian republic in the Caucasus, of Muslim majority.
The suspects were intercepted in possession of a homemade explosive device and automatic weapons, according to the FSB.
The FSB also stated that the detained people are “directly implicated in financing and providing terrorist means to the perpetrators of the terrorist act committed on March 22, 2024” at Crocus City Hall.
The attack was claimed by the ‘jihadist’ organization Islamic State (IS), but Russian authorities continue to refer to a Ukrainian lead, rejected by Kiev.
After the terrorist attack, 12 people have been arrested, including the four suspected assailants from Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia where IS remains active.
Today, a tenth suspect was placed in pre-trial detention until May 22, according to the press service of the Moscow courts.
Identified as Yusufzoda Yakubjoni, and also from Tajikistan, according to the Russian media, he is accused of “terrorism” and “transferring money to an accomplice” a few days before the attack to “secure the terrorists’ accommodation”.
On Friday night, the FSB also announced the arrest of three “people from a Central Asian country” who were preparing a bomb attack in southwestern Russia.
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