Russia’s high safety company mentioned Monday it has damaged up what it known as a “terrorist cell” in southern Russia whose members had supplied weapons and money to suspected attackers of the Moscow live performance corridor.
The Federal Safety Service, or FSB, mentioned that on Sunday 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 had been concerned in channeling funds and offering weapons to the gunmen who attacked the live performance corridor on Moscow’s western edge on March 22, killing 144 individuals within the deadliest assault on Russian soil in 20 years.
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“The detained militants straight participated in financing the perpetrators of the March 22 terror attack on the Crocus City Hall in Moscow and offering them with terror means,” the FSB mentioned in an announcement.
Ambassadors attend a laying ceremony at a makeshift memorial in entrance of the Crocus Metropolis Corridor in Moscow, Russia, on March 30, 2024. (Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool Picture by way of AP)
It mentioned one of many suspects detained in Dagestan had confessed to personally bringing weapons to the Moscow attackers.
The FSB launched a video exhibiting 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 individual.
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The company mentioned the suspects are international 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 the Central Asian nation of Tajikistan.
The detention of 4 suspects in Dagestan follows the arrest of the 4 suspected gunmen and 7 others who had been accused of involvement within the assault.
An affiliate of the Islamic State group claimed accountability for the assault. President Vladimir Putin acknowledged that “radical Islamists” performed the raid, however alleged – with out offering proof – that Ukraine and the West had been concerned, regardless of Kyiv’s vehement denials.
