MOSCOW. Feb 5 (Interfax) - Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has reported the detention of three Russian citizens suspected of plotting a terrorist attack on a representative of the Crimean authorities on orders from Ukraine's Security Service (SBU).
"The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation prevented a terrorist attack on a senior official of the Republic of Crimea organized by the Security Service of Ukraine," the FSB press center said.
The detained citizens,"Bondar, Shevchenko and Ananyeva, acting on orders from the SBU, plotted to blow up a car in Simferopol that belongs to a representative of the Crimean authorities," it said.
"The detained persons have confessed," it said.
Items found and seized from the suspects include a remote controlled improvised explosive device made from an adjusted DM22 directional anti-tank mine of German origin equipped with a brisant hexogen explosive charge weighing 1.9 kg, a radio transmitting set, a tripod mount for placing a mine launcher in the direction of the target, a stabilizing fin, a high-explosive improvised explosive device consisting of a foreign-made C-4 hexogen plastic explosive weighing 3.05 kg, an electric detonator and a radio relay, as well as an actuator (a DTMF time fuse) using a mobile phone.
The FSB's investigative department for Crimea and Sevastopol has opened criminal cases on counts of an attempt to perpetrate a terrorist act and the illegal acquisition, transfer, sale, storage, transportation, shipping or possession of explosive substances or explosive devices.
"Security services continue to take measures aimed at establishing all circumstances of this unlawful activity," the press center said.
A local court has remanded them in custody for two months, the press service for the FSB's Crimean branch said.
"The Kievsky District Court of Simferopol ordered that the detained persons be taken into custody for two months as a restraining measure," it said.