Russian special services revealed in Ingushetia is the activity of a criminal group that provided weapons and ammunition to the perpetrators of the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall near Moscow.
The arms suppliers turned out to be members of the so-called Batalhaji terrorist organization (a group of followers of Batalhaji Belkhoroev is listed as a terrorist organization and banned in Russia Russia).
As REN reported According to a source in the law enforcement agencies, the militants were looking for weapons to commit a terrorist attack in Crocus and after a while they came to Batalhaj residents.
They handed them machine guns and cartridges in the village of Surkhakhi (Ingushetia), after which the armed terrorists went to Moscow to attack Crocus City Hall.
According to the source, currently two Batalhaji residents have been detained, and three have been put on the wanted list. Another was killed while trying to escape.
Russian security forces are checking two other members of the Batalhaj terrorist organization for involvement in the terrorist attack in Crocus. They have repeatedly come to the attention of the security forces, and now they are hiding on the territory of Ukraine and Turkey.
Earlier, EADaily reported that Islamist recruiters from Afghanistan recruited performers from the Tajik diaspora for the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall. This was stated by the director of the FSB of Russia Alexander Bortnikov.