Russia’s Federal Security Service detains clandestine cell funding Daesh terrorists

MOSCOW- Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained several financiers of the so-called “Islamic State” terrorist organization (known in Arabic as Daesh) in five regions of the country, the FSB said in a statement on Monday, according to Itar Tass.

“The Federal Security Service has carried out a joint operation with the Investigative Committee, the Interior Ministry, the Federal Financial Monitoring Service and the National Guard, and exposed a clandestine cell that was active in Moscow, the Moscow, Dagestan and Krasnoyarsk regions and the Khanty-Mansiysk autonomous region, collecting and transferring money to the “Islamic State” terrorist organization,” the statement reads.

 Criminal cases have been opened against six Russians under Article 205.1.1 of the Russian Criminal Code (abetting terrorism).

According to the FSB, the detained were involved in the activities of a crime group whose members had been convicted of funding terrorist organizations in Syria. Communication means and payment tools that prove their illegal activities were seized from the detained.

Source Itar Tass