MOSCOW. March 28 (Interfax) - A man suspected of being involved in organizing explosions at Moscow metro stations in March 2010 was detained in Dagestan and has been taken to Moscow, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said.
"A member of 'Vagabov's gang' was detained by Federal Security Service officials working in cooperation with the Russian Investigative Committee in the Khasavyurt district of Dagestan in order to put into practice his unavoidable punishment," the Federal Security Service's public relations center told Interfax.
The group, whose leader was neutralized in 2010, "is involved in the organization of the explosions carried out by suicide bombers in Moscow's Lubyanka and park Kultury stations on March 29, 2010," the special service said.
"The suspect was taken to Moscow for further investigations," it said.
Two bombs went off in the Moscow Lubyanka and park Kultury metro stations with an interval of 40 minutes during the morning rush hour on March 29, 2010. Forty people were killed and some 160 injured.
Suicide bombers detonated explosive devices while the trains were stationary, when there were many people both inside them and on the platforms. The improvised explosive device detonated at Lubyanka had a capacity of up to four kilos of TNT, while the one used at Park Kultury had a capacity of up to two kilos of TNT.
The National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) earlier said militant Gusen Magomedov, who personally accompanied into the metro the suicide bomber who detonated the self-styled explosive device at the Park Kultury station, had been killed in Dagestan on February 6, 2013.
Magomedali Vagabov, the orchestrator of the explosions and leader of a group of saboteurs and terrorists, was killed in 2010.
It was reported in December 2017 that law enforcement officials had identified one of the militants killed in the Gumbetovsky district of Dagestan as Ilyas Sharipov, the brother of suicide bomber Maryam Sharipova, who blew herself up in the Moscow metro.