A resident of Kaspiysk has been arrested in connection with a terrorism case.

Security forces detained a Kaspiysk resident in connection with a case involving the collection of funds in a cryptocurrency wallet to purchase weapons for illegal armed groups; the court ordered his remand.

A criminal case has been opened in Dagestan against a local resident suspected of financing terrorism. While in Turkey, he collected funds on social media through a crypto wallet and sent more than 188,000 Turkish lira (approximately 4,300 US dollars) to purchase weapons for illegal armed groups, TASS reported, citing the FSB Directorate for Dagestan.

"The Investigative Department of the FSB Directorate for the Republic of Dagestan has opened a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under Part 1.1 of Article 205.1 of the Russian Criminal Code (assistance to terrorist activity). According to the investigation, the suspect in this crime, a resident of Kaspiysk, Republic of Dagestan, while in the Republic of Turkey, created a group in a social media messenger where he posted the details of his crypto wallet from October 2022 to October 2023," the report states. The report states that the collected funds, amounting to over 188,000 Turkish lira, were sent to members of illegal armed groups to purchase weapons, ammunition, and equipment. The report states that the suspect has been detained and remanded in custody. The report states that the Caucasian Knot reported that a military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Yusuf Manukov from Buynaksk to nine years in prison, finding him guilty of aiding terrorist activity and publicly calling for terrorism.