MOSCOW. Feb 19 (Interfax) - The criminal case over two teenagers planning to stage terror attacks in Kerch will be investigated by the regional branch of the Russian Investigative Committee, the committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko said.
"The Russian Investigative Committee chairman Alexander Bastrykin has instructed the committee's main investigative directorate for the republic of Crimea and Sevastopol city to take charge of the criminal case opened by investigators at the Russian Federal Security Service branch in Crimea and Sevastopol against two young men, born 2003 and 2004," Petrenko told Interfax on Tuesday.
Investigators are "to carry out all necessary inquiries within the shortest possible period of time and identify the reasons and factors which led to the destructive behavior of the minors.
"The agency head has ordered the Investigative Committee headquarters to oversee progress in the investigation," Petrenko said.