MOSCOW. April 5 (Interfax) - A militant who was plotting to attack officers of law enforcement with explosives, and three persons associated with him and suspected of funding the ISIL terrorist organization (banned in Russia) have been detained in Kislovodsk, the public relations center of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) told journalists on Monday.
"A Russian citizen born in 1996, earlier convicted of criminal offenses, has been detained in Kislovodsk for plotting an attack on law enforcement officers with the use of improvised explosive devices to the benefit of international terrorist organizations," the public relations center said.
Components of an improvised explosive device, explosives, projectiles, extremist books, and manuals on making explosives and explosive devices stored in communications gadgets were seized from the terrorist's home, it said.
"Later that day, three of his contacts from among Russian citizens were detained in Kislovodsk; they helped organize a channel financing terrorist fighters in the Syrian Arab Republic," the center said.
Those persons created an ISIL cell aimed at perpetrating terrorist crimes in the Stavropol Territory.