(Itar-Tass) -- A dreadful terrorist act at the major marketplace in Vladikavkaz is solved, Holmes! How do you do it!
three beturbanned goons were jugged, another two were bumped off, Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov said at a meeting of the National Anti-Terrorist Committee here on Tuesday.
Doku
Count DokuUmarov's close accomplice Khashagulgov criminally masterminded the terrorist act, his gang is also involved in more than ten blasts in Ingushetia.
"The terrorist acts in North Ossetia were solved. They were committed in August-September 2010 at the major marketplace in Vladikavkaz and at a police post on the Caucasus federal highway on the administrative border with Ingushetia," Bortnikov noted.
"During the search operation a terrorist group, which criminally masterminded and committed the foresaid crimes and involved in numerous murders of law enforcers, servicemen and more than ten blasts of homemade bombs, was spotted," the FSB director said.
"Comrade Commander! I have spotted the criminal gang!"
"Very well, Igor. Bring up the men!"
"The detectives found out that the terrorist acts were criminally masterminded by Doku Umarov's close accomplice Isa
MoriartyKhashagulgov, who also coordinated the rackets in Ingushetia," he said.
"The direct perpetrators of the blasts were active members of the gang
SpikeDaurbekov,
MuggsyLatyrov and the brother of warlord Khashagulgov. They are jugged and are being beaten at the detention center," Bortnikov said.
Other two accomplices in the terrorist acts chose to shoot it out and were liquidated, the FSB director added.
The Russian Investigation Committee and the FSB Investigation Department are investigating the terrorist acts.
On September 9, at the gates to the Vladikavkaz major marketplace a suicide bomb attacker detonated an bomb hidden in the luggage compartment of a Volga car. The tragedy claimed the lives of 19 people, 14 of them died instantaneously. About 200 people received various injuries. Seventeen injured people were brought to Moscow for treatment.
The detainees testified about the ties "with major groups involved in the terrorist acts," Deputy Prime Minister and presidential plenipotentiary representative in the North Caucasus Federal District Alexander Khloponin told news hounds earlier.