The de facto security service of occupied Abkhazia said it had detained three Russian citizens on terrorism-related allegations and transferred them to Russian authorities.
According to the de facto agency, the detainees – Anastasia Kaushan (born 1986), Anton Kaushan (born 1986), and Yegor Grishin (born 2006) – are suspected of forming a terrorist group to commit “serious” and “particularly serious” crimes in Russia’s Krasnodar region. It added that the operational activities were conducted jointly with Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).
Anastasia Kaushan, who is suspected of forming the group “with the aim of forcibly seizing administrative buildings” in Krasnodar, used the Telegram app to maintain contact with her accomplices, the local news agency Apsnypress reported. Citing operational data, the news agency said Kaushan had left Russia and arrived in Abkhazia “to avoid possible criminal prosecution” and informed members of the group that “the activities of the terrorist formation she created had not ceased and that, once the danger had passed, she would resume implementing her plans.”
The de facto security service also said that all three Russians were handed over to Russia’s FSB on April 27. It added that a criminal case has been opened against Kaushan under the Russian Criminal Code for “organization of a terrorist community and participation in it,” while investigative actions concerning the other two individuals are ongoing.
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