The detained are suspected of channelling funds and offering weapons to the gunmen who attacked the live performance corridor in Moscow.
Russia’s high safety company has damaged up a so-called “terrorist cell” in southern Russia whose members have been allegedly concerned within the Moscow live performance corridor assault.
The Federal Safety Service stated that it detained 4 suspected members of the cell within the Russian province of Dagestan within the North Caucasus.
The company alleged that the suspects detained in Dagestan have been concerned in channelling funds and offering weapons to the gunmen who attacked the live performance corridor on Moscow’s western edge on March 22.
“The detained militants immediately participated in financing the perpetrators of the March 22 terror assault on the Crocus Metropolis Corridor in Moscow and offering them with terror means,” the FSB stated in a press release.
It stated one of many suspects detained in Dagestan had confessed to personally bringing weapons to the Moscow attackers.
The FSB launched a video displaying one of many suspects saying that additionally they deliberate an assault within the metropolis of Kaspiysk in Dagestan. It wasn’t clear whether or not the 2 confessions got here from the identical particular person.
The company stated the suspects are overseas nationals, with out specifying their nationality. The suspected attackers of the Moscow live performance corridor arrested hours after the March 22 raid are residents of Tajikistan.
The detention of 4 suspects in Dagestan follows the arrest of the 4 suspected gunmen and 7 others who have been accused of involvement within the assault.
