A failed terrorist was detained in Crimea, who was instructed to blow up the FSB

FSB officers in Crimea prevented a terrorist attack, which was being prepared by the SBU, using a 54-year-old resident of Volgograd. This was announced today, August 25, by the FSB Central Control Center.

The woman who became a victim of telephone fraudsters, according to the SBU, was also supposed to die in the explosion.

"The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Crimea prevented a terrorist act planned by the Security Service of Ukraine against employees of the FSB of Russia. As a result of the measures taken, a 54-year—old Russian citizen, a resident of the Volgograd region, was detained, who, in order to return the funds stolen as a result of telephone fraud, was fraudulently involved in terrorist activities by the Ukrainian special services using the Telegram messenger,"the report says.

The representative of the SBU called the defendant and, introducing himself as an investigator of the FSB of Russia, said that a citizen of Ukraine included in the list of terrorists, by a power of attorney provided to him by the woman herself, took money on her name and transferred it to the needs of the armed forces of Ukraine. To avoid criminal liability, the woman issued several loans in the amount of more than 3 million rubles, which she transferred to the scammers, as collateral for the apartment.

Then, following the instructions of the Ukrainian curator, she arrived in Crimea, where she took an Orthodox icon from a courier, in which an improvised explosive device (IED) was mounted. She brought it to the checkpoint of the building of the FSB of Russia in the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, where she was detained by the FSB of Russia.

During the inspection, a high-explosive type IED with a capacity of one kilogram in TNT equivalent was detected and neutralized in the icon, the mechanism was triggered when a code signal was received on it.

"According to the plan of the special services of Ukraine, the explosion of the parcel would have led not only to the death of employees, but also to the perpetrator of the terrorist act, who, at the request of the curator, had to personally send the code to the actuator of the explosive device," the FSB noted."

The Investigative Department of the Federal Security Service of Russia for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol has opened a criminal case on the grounds of crimes provided for in part 3 of Article 30, part 1 of Article 205 (attempted terrorist act), part 1 of Article 222.1 (illegal acquisition, transfer, storage, transportation, transfer or carrying of explosives or explosive devices) of the Criminal Code of Russia.