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The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) detained ISIS supporters that had collected at least 10 million rubles ($157,000) for the terrorists in the Russian Republic of Dagestan, the FSB Center for Public Relations told TASS.
“The Federal Security Service in cooperation with the Investigative Committee, the Russian Interior Ministry and the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring have foiled the activity of an undercover cell in the Dagestan Region that collected and transferred money for the needs of the international terrorist organization, the Islamic State,” the news agency quoted the statement.
FSB officers detained at least 2 persons over this case. Payment instruments and fiscal receipts were confiscated on the site.
