[KavkazUzel] Transactions by a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria in 2020 became the reason for initiating a criminal case on financing terrorism; the man is in pre-trial detention.
A criminal case against a 44-year-old resident of Nalchik was opened based on materials from the republican FSB department.
According to the investigation, in 2020, the man made several money transfers through a banking application, transferring money to the accounts of alleged “organizers of a channel for financing terrorist activities and members of an international terrorist organization.”
Investigators believe that he made these transfers intentionally "with the aim of facilitating terrorist activity," according to a statement on the website of the republic's Investigative Committee.
The suspect was given a preventive measure in the form of detention, the department noted. The article on financing terrorist activity (part 1.1 of article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of Russia) provides for eight to 15 years of imprisonment.
The "Caucasian Knot" does not yet have any comments from the suspect or his lawyer regarding the investigation's version.