A Pyatigorsk resident has been sent to pretrial detention in connection with a terrorism financing case.

Investigators in Stavropol suspect a local resident of providing financial support to members of a terrorist organization. The court remanded the woman in custody.

A Pyatigorsk resident has been charged with two counts of aiding terrorism and one count of financing terrorist activity. The first charge 1 carries a sentence of seven to fifteen years in prison, while the second 2 carries a sentence of eight to fifteen years.

According to investigators, between 2016 and 2018, the woman transferred funds to members of an international terrorist organization, whose activities are banned in Russia. According to security officials, she made her transfers to assist militants.

"The accused has been detained. The court has ordered her pretrial detention," the regional Investigative Committee's official Telegram channel stated.

The investigators' statement does not specify how many transfers the accused made or the amount in question over the course of two or three years. It also does not specify when exactly the woman was detained and arrested, or which terrorist organization is involved.

"Investigative and other procedural actions aimed at collecting and securing available evidence are being conducted in this criminal case," the department added. Caucasian Knot has no comment from the accused or her lawyer at this time.

Criminal cases under the article on financing terrorist activity against residents of southern Russia and the North Caucasus, reported by security forces in 2018 and 2019, in most cases concerned transfers to members of the Islamic State terrorist organization, which is banned in Russia. For example, in January 2019, it was reported that three people had been detained for collecting money for militants "under the guise of charity work" in Dagestan, Kuban, and Adygea.

In December 2018, a Moscow court arrested seven people from the North Caucasus, including two women, on similar charges of collecting funds to finance militants. A year later, charges against four of them were dropped. One of the defendants in this case, Chechen native Liliya Saidova, was sentenced in the spring of 2020 to five years in prison, although she denied all charges.