Those involved in the terrorist attack perpetrated per week in the past on the outskirts of Moscow tried flee to Ukraine on orders of an organizer who communicated with them via Telegram, as reported this Friday by the Russian Instruction Committee (IC).
“Those accused of committing the attack (…) reported that all their actions, each throughout the preparation stage and after their armed attack on Crocus City Hall, had been coordinated via voice messages on Telegram with a person who launched himself with a pseudonym,” the entity reported on that identical social community.
According to the IC, “after committing the crime, the terrorists, following directions from the coordinator, They drove by automotive in direction of the Russian-Ukrainian border to cross it and obtain the promised reward in kyiv.” “The instruction continues the investigations to set up the involvement of the Ukrainian intelligence companies in the preparations and financing of the terrorist attack,” the IC added.
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, marked the path of the investigation since final Monday, by suggesting the existence of a Ukrainian black hand after the jihadist attack that occurred in a live performance corridor in the metropolis of Krasnogorsk, and which was claimed by the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISPK, for its acronym in English).
His Belarusian counterpart, Alexandr Lukashenko, questioned the Russian model by mentioning that the extremists initially tried to escape via Belarus, however “turned” due to the armored border, earlier than being trapped in a forest in the Russian Bryansk area shut to his nation and Ukraine.
Preventive detention for 9 alleged suspects
This week, the Russian Justice already dominated preventive detention for 9 suspects involved in the attack, 4 of them direct individuals in the bloodbath, who had been charged with terrorism and will face life imprisonment. Likewise, this Friday in Tajikistan, 9 folks allegedly linked to those suspected of attacking the live performance corridor had been additionally arrested.
Russian investigators acknowledge the involvement of Islamists in the attack, however keep that they acquired “important quantities of cash and cryptocurrencies from Ukraine“to put together the crime.
According to the newest official information, the attack on the Crocus City Hall live performance corridor has left at the very least 144 lifeless and greater than 160 hospitalized.
