Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited[Regnum] An accomplice of IS was detained in Omsk, Irina Rusnak, an official representative of the regional department of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, said on August 8.
“The FSB of Russia in the Omsk region, when trying to travel to the Syrian Arab Republic to participate in hostilities on the side of the international terrorist organization Islamic State (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation), a citizen of one of the countries of the Central Asian region was detained,” Rusnak quoted agency TASS.
The court chose him a measure of restraint in the form of arrest. The representative of the FSB said that the detainee was in contact with ISIS members who are in Syria. He himself offered to help them buy explosives, ammunition and weapons.
He also offered to help promote the ideas of the organization via the Internet. During interrogation, the detainee testified that he expressed his readiness to join the ranks of a terrorist organization, swearing allegiance to it.
He was going to go to Syria and there to participate in terrorist activities and in hostilities. The detainee encouraged his acquaintances to join him. The IS accomplice independently learned mine-explosive business via the Internet, assembled components for creating explosives.
The Omsk department of the FSB opened a criminal case on the financing of terrorist activities and on training for its implementation.
As IA Regnum reported, in April the FSB detained an IS accomplice in the Stavropol Territory. On the instructions of a terrorist organization, he was preparing a terrorist attack in Mineralnye Vody. The attack was planned on one of the objects of mass stay of people.
In mid-June, an IS member was extradited to Russia from Iraq. She came to Syria in 2016 and voluntarily joined the IS.