A native of Dagestan is suspected of involvement in the preparation of a terrorist attack in Adygea.

FSB officers in Adygea have named a 20-year-old native of Dagestan as involved in planning a terrorist attack at a major shopping center and recruiting young Muslims for a terrorist organization.

The FSB Directorate for Adygea released information about the criminal case against the young man on the afternoon of February 2. The native of Dagestan is suspected of recruiting for a terrorist organization (Part 1.1 of Article 205.1 of the Russian Criminal Code carries a prison sentence of eight to fifteen years).

According to security officials, the native of Dagestan was closely acquainted with a resident of the village of Novaya Adygeya, who was allegedly planning a terrorist attack at the large shopping center "MEGA Adygeya-Kuban."

The FSB believes that the 20-year-old man met with members of the youth Islamic ummah of the Takhtamukaysky District, "those most susceptible to recruitment," and distributed propaganda among them for a terrorist organization banned in Russia. He also convinced his interlocutors "of the need to commit terrorist crimes in the region," TASS reported, citing the agency's regional office.

The report did not provide details of the terrorist plot, nor did it specify whether the resident of Novaya Adygeya was detained. The FSB also did not disclose the preventive measure chosen for the alleged recruiter, originally from Dagestan. Security forces did not report any specific information about the foiled terrorist attack at the MEGA Adygeya-Kuban shopping center.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on January 28, security sources reported a shootout in the Karabudakhkent district of Dagestan, during which two unidentified men who opened fire on law enforcement were killed. The two militants killed in Dagestan were preparing terrorist attacks on a railway line and a religious site, the FSB reported the following day. According to sources, the dead men were 18 and 20 years old.