MOSCOW, September 20 - RAPSI. The Czech Republic's District Court of Prague 2 has opened the trial of four Dagestani suspects in a terrorist related case, Czech Republic's Radio Praha reported on Thursday.

Also two Bulgarians and a Moldovan appeared before the court. There are six men and a woman among the suspects. The prosecution claims that all the individuals were manufacturing and selling counterfeit identity cards of very high quality. The incomes from the illegal activity were allegedly allocated to finance the Jamaat Shariat (Dagestani Front) terrorist group. The criminal group that was forging documents operated from 2008 to 2010.

None of the suspects pleaded guilty, though some confessed that they were forging documents but that they did not know that the revenue from the activity was being allocated to finance terrorist activity. Prosecutors, to the contrary, claim that at least four members of the criminal gang were well aware of the activities they financing.

The Czech Republic media has reported that this will be the first terrorist related case in the country's history.

Jamaa Shariat (Dagestani Front) is an underground terrorist organization established in Daghestan in early 2000s. Its members have allegedly been involved in numerous murders of civilians, and attacks on law enforcement officers, members of Russian special services, militants as well as members of the Muslim clergy of the Spiritual Department of Muslims of Dagestan. Jamaa Shariat was allegedly involved in the 2010 Moscow metro bombings which claimed the lives of 41 people and injured 88.