Network Forging Fake Passports for ’ISIS’ Busted in Moscow
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Russia's Federal Security Service [FSB] arrested an international criminal group of 14 suspects involved in forging passports and other documents for extremists preparing to go to Syria, and those coming to Russia for terror missions.
A joint special FSB and Interior Ministry operation in Moscow exposed an international organized crime network, which was providing forged papers for extremists from Russia and countries of the Commonwealth Independent States.
The gang was busy forging documents for those "illegally heading to Syria to take part in military actions on the side of "ISIS", and also for the militants sent on a mission to Russia by "ISIS" leaders to conduct terrorist and extremist activities there, in addition to illegal migrants."
The members of the group were arrested after sufficient evidence had been gathered. Search operations revealed a vast stockpile of forged documents, forms, stamps, special equipment for fake papers' production, as well as extremist literature.
Meanwhile, the FSB believes that all members of the criminal ring are now in custody. Secret printing presses and laboratories were among the findings, and sales and distribution channels were shut down.
Relatively, the FSB reported that the members of the criminal group have been taking extreme precautionary measures, keeping secret and constantly changing their place of residence, using undercover communications' tools, including software enabling them to hide personal data while surfing the web.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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