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| FSB defeated an extremist cell in Rostov-on-Don | |
| 2024-03-31 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] Security forces detained six people in Rostov-on-Don, calling them members of the Allya-Ayat
One of the detainees, a 65-year-old resident of Rostov-on-Don, is considered by law enforcement to be the organizer of the activities of a banned religious association. Five more detainees, according to investigators, were its participants. According to investigators, the elderly man was a “follower of the Alla-Ayat creed and in 2023 organized a religious association based on it in Rostov-on-Don, where he attracted local residents. “The defendants held general meetings and “pseudo-treatment” sessions in a rented office, using the religious practices of an extremist organization,” says a message published on March 27 on the official website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. The report notes that FSB and Ministry of Internal Affairs officers jointly conducted searches in the houses of the detainees and in the office where, according to their information, meetings were held. According to the department, “items and documents relevant to the investigation were seized,” but the publication did not specify which items were being referred to. The detainees acted “under foreign supervision,” pursued an “aggressive recruitment policy among residents” and transferred “financial flows” to “unfriendly states,” TASS reported, citing a source in law enforcement agencies. On March 27, the Leninsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don chose a preventive measure for five defendants - the alleged organizer of the cell and three alleged participants, including two women, and were assigned detention until May 24. The court sent another alleged member of the organization under house arrest, the agency reported. The accused carried out recruiting work not only among the civilian population, but also among the military, a RIA Novosti source claims. According to him, “participants of the occult-religious movement promoted their own method of pseudo-healing and self-medication,” which had previously spread in Kazakhstan. The 65-year-old Rostovite was charged under the article on organizing extremist activities (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of Russia), which provides for six to ten years in prison. The remaining five detainees were charged under Part 2 of the same article, which implies from two to six years in prison. Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refsorg.php on line 27 Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refsorg.php on line 41 Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refsorg.php on line 47 Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refsorg.php on line 51 | |
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