Natives of Azerbaijan were engaged in financing international terrorist organization in Russia
Employees of MIA of Russian Federation together with the FSS suppressed the activities of ethnic criminal community, the press service of the Russian Interior Ministry reports. It is noted that the group was specialized in illegal banking operations and financing of international terrorist organization.
According to the report, the monthly money turnover was more than half a billion rubles. As a result of a large-scale operation seven community leaders were detained.
"In the course of complex operational search of events it turned out that the members of the criminal community had organized an illegal route for flow of funds from the Russian Federation which was within the interests of natives of Central Asia who were on the territory of Russia illegally. These people are engaged in shadowed commercial activities in the largest markets of Moscow region as well as other regions of the Russian Federation – Pokrovskaia vegetable base, markets in Perm region and a number of other major trading platforms," the press-service reports.
It notes that there are facts that this rout is used to finance international terrorist organization "Hizb ut - Tahrir al-Islami."
According to investigation, the criminal community consisted of several functionally and geographically separated structural divisions. The groups were responsible for collecting the cash, its encashment, transportation to temporary storage, issuing them to the customers, transferring to the "phony companies" account and so on.
"The cash money was formed from the proceeds of illegal commercial activities of foreign nationals, mostly natives of Central Asia as well as Azerbaijan, Georgia and Abkhazia. By the order of the customer the money was transferred to operating accounts controlled by the criminal society of the firms and were sent abroad," the statement reads.
Later on, the police and Russian FSS detected the direct organizers of the criminal society who were heading the organization’s structural divisions. They were citizens of Uzbekistan, Georgia and Russia. Besides the organizers over 40 active members were included in the society, who had well-defined assignments.
A criminal case is filed based on the facts of illegal banking activities, as well as organizing and participating in a criminal society.
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