MOSCOW. Feb 22 (Interfax) - A 47-year-old man was detained by police near the village of Zaitsevo in the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region while trying to sell an improvised explosive device, a source in law enforcement services told Interfax.
"Recently police officers established contact with a potential arms dealer and, posing as clients, offered him a deal," the source said.
The man was detained while handing over the order, he said.
A gas gun adapted to fire combat cartridges, as well as an improvised explosive device made from an artillery shell planted in an iron bucket filled with construction foam with wires attached to it were confiscated from him, the source said.
"Similar explosive devices have been used by members of armed groups to commit terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus on a number of occasions," he said.