Cache with two explosive devices: FSB prevented terrorist attacks in Kabardino-Balkaria

The Russian Federal Security Service has prevented terrorist attacks in Kabardino-Balkaria. This is stated in the message of the department.

“During the processing of operational information in a forest near the villages of Chernaya Rechka and Altud of the Urban District of the KBR, a cache was discovered with two improvised explosive devices of high power ready for use,” the ministry said.

It is noted that trying to take them out was too risky, in connection with which specialists in explosives neutralized the bombs on the spot. After that, FSB officers, together with the region’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, identified and detained the criminal who manufactured and hid the devices.

During the interrogation, he admitted that terrorist acts were being prepared against law enforcement agencies and government departments.

“As soon as possible, a resident of the republic previously convicted of a terrorist crime was involved in the manufacture of discovered IEDs and laying a cache. With the measures taken, he was detained in the territory of Nartkal and gave confession statements on the preparation of acts of sabotage and terrorist acts against objects of law enforcement bodies and state structures, ”the FSB emphasized.

In connection with these facts, a criminal case was initiated under part 1 of article 30 and part 1 of article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Terrorist Act”). The FSB reported that the issue of detaining the suspect is being decided. Employees conduct operational-search measures, an investigation is underway.

• FSB operational video on the prevention of terrorist attacks in Kabardino-Balkaria

April incident

Recall that in April the FSB detained a member of the Islamic State * group in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, who was planning to carry out a high-profile attack. An explosive device manufactured by him, extremist literature and other evidence of the preparation of the attack were found in his home.

Moreover, according to the FSB, the detainee before the IG was a member of the Baksan bandgurppa, which was part of the United Vilayat of Kabarda, Balkaria and Karachai group **. Nine members of this gang attacked the Baksan hydroelectric power station on July 21, 2010. As a result of the attack, two security officers were killed, and after that the station itself did not work for two and a half years, as they decided to seriously modernize it after the attack.

“According to reports, the previously detained was a member of the so-called Baksan gang group, according to the leaders of which he was engaged in the manufacture of improvised explosive devices similar to the one seized, which were used in the attack on the Baksan hydroelectric station in 2010 and the undermining of law enforcement officers on the territory of the CBD from 2009 to 2012 ”, - noted in the FSB.

According to law enforcement agencies, the radical joined the IG after the leaders and the most active members of the bandit group were neutralized.

On August 23, another successful anti-terrorist operation by the FSB became known. Employees of the department, together with the Russian National Guard, stopped the activities of the Islamic State cell in the Kaluga Region. The detainees, according to investigators, collected and transferred money to Syria for grouping.

“The criminal group consisted of six natives of the states of the Central Asian region. According to the instructions of the MTO emissaries, they carried out the collection and transfer of funds to Syria to finance terrorist activities, ”the report said.

At the same time, the number of terrorist crimes in Russia is constantly decreasing. So, in 2018, nine such offenses were recorded, Andrei Novikov, deputy chief of staff of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC), reported in May.

“It has decreased by almost nine times since 2013, in 2018 there were nine such crimes, and in 2013 there were 80,” he said.

According to him, the number of crimes decreased due to the work of authorities and law enforcement agencies.

* “Islamic State” (ISIS, ISIS) - the organization was recognized as terrorist by decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of December 29, 2014.

** “United Vilayat of Kabarda, Balkaria and Karachai” - an organization recognized as extremist and banned on the territory of Russia (decision of the Supreme Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic of 09.07.2010).