The Military Court of the Second Western District of Moscow sentenced Merob Khaitov, a defendant in the criminal case against six ISIS terrorists (an organization banned in Russia) who planned to blow up the building of the Federal Security Service (FSB), to 12 years in prison. Attract visitors and passers-by on Lubyanka in 2022 This is reported by RIA News citing materials from the judicial press service.
According to the court, the defendant fully admitted his guilt and testified against the other six defendants in the case, helping investigators solve the crime.
“The court eventually sentenced him to 12 years in prison,” the document states.
It was stated that he would spend three years in prison and the remaining nine years in a maximum security penal colony. Additionally, the court imposed a fine of 500,000 rubles on Khaitov as an additional penalty.
26 October in Moscow to start It was decided to hear the criminal case filed against six people affiliated with the terrorist organization ISIS, which is banned in Russia.
According to the FSB, the defendants were planning to blow up the intelligence agency building in Lubyanka in 2022. According to TASS, from March to April last year, the defendants formed a “terrorist community” under the auspices of various groups affiliated with ISIS. The investigation claims the explosion was planned using a suicide bomber. Representatives of law enforcement agencies reported that members of the group intended to put forward conditions to Russian authorities for the withdrawal of troops from Syria.
Previously in Spain and Canada liquidated Terrorist network linked to ISIS*.