MOSCOW, March 30 discovered a crypto-wallet that could have been used by the customers and perpetrators of the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall; an amount equal to half of what was promised to the terrorists for the attack on the concert hall.
The crypto wallet address was posted in a Telegram channel associated with the Voice of Khorasan (the Afghan wing of the Islamic State*).
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The agency, having studied the data of transfers that are available on the Internet, found that the wallet address on the Tronscan platform first appeared on March 12 in a post on one of the extremist Telegram channels, the administrator of which is a person with the nickname Mavlavi_56. He also runs another Telegram channel — “Voice of Khorasan”.
The next day, March 13, the wallet became active: as the first transfer, tokens in the amount of $2.19 were received there .
The now-deleted Voice of Khorasan channel was used to recruit perpetrators of the Crocus terrorist attack, a source said on Wednesday. On the same day, the head of the United Press Service of the Courts of St. Petersburg, Daria Lebedeva, speaking about another case, said that the recruitment of terrorists who attacked Crocus was carried out by “emissaries of the terrorist organization ISIS”* through a group on Telegram, but did not name a specific channel.
Mavlavi_56, the former admin of the “Voice of Khorasan” channel, posted a post in his other Telegram channel three times before the terrorist attack (March 18 and twice on March 20) with the title “COLLECTING funds to help captive families and children — Mujahideen — Muhajirs” (spelling and punctuation of the original. — Ed.) indicating the address of the same wallet on the Tronscan platform.
A similar entry is posted under the photo in the account of the same person on Instagram**. No fundraising was announced after March 20.
On the day of the terrorist attack (March 22) at 17:24 Moscow time, a link to the “Voices of Khorasan” sermon and under it a small photo of a militant with a covered face and a machine gun on his shoulder appeared in the above-mentioned Telegram channel. The wallet on the Tronscan platform saw a peak of activity on the same day: tokens came in and left almost immediately. In total there were four receipts and departures of funds: 325, 550, 550 and 1100 dollars.
If you add up all four transfers, you get 2,525 dollars, or about 232 thousand rubles (at the current exchange rate, about 92 rubles). After his arrest, the accused Faridun Shamsiddin said that they promised half a million for the terrorist attack and that only about half was transferred to the card. After the day of the attack, no operations were carried out with this crypto-wallet.
Terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall
Shooting and fire at Crocus near Moscow City Hall» took place on the evening of March 22. Several men burst into the building, shot people at point-blank range and set fire to the auditorium in several places. According to the latest data from the head of the Ministry of Health, Mikhail Murashko, 144 people were killed.
As Vladimir Putin stated, the terrorist attack was carried out by radical Islamists, the security forces will have to find out who is behind them. FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov noted that the initial testimony of the detainees confirms the Ukrainian trail; Russian intelligence services believe that the United States, Great Britain and Ukraine are behind the attack.
The Basmanny court arrested nine people in the case, four of whom are the alleged direct perpetrators of the terrorist attack.
* A terrorist organization banned in Russia.
** The activities of Meta (social networks Facebook and Instagram) are banned in Russia as extremist.
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