MOSCOW, November 22 - RAPSI. The Moscow City Court will hear on November 26 the pleadings in the case of several individuals who planned to commit a terrorist attack on the high-speed Sapsan train, Abusupyan Gaytayev, the attorney of one of the defendants, told the Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI/rapsinews.com) on Thursday.

He said the court has granted time to the parties to prepare their positions.

The case will be heard by a three-judge panel.

Islam Khamzhuyev, Fail Nevlyutov, Mansur Umayev and Mansur Edilbiyev have been accused of attempting to commit acts of terrorism, as well as illegally acquiring, transferring, selling, transporting, and possessing arms and explosive devices. Khamzhuyev, Umayev and Edelbiyev have also been charged with illegally manufacturing explosives. Nevlyutov has been charged with taking part in an illegally armed enterprise. Khamzhuyev has also been accused of financing and participating in an illegally armed criminal enterprise.

On July 18, 2011, Federal Security Service (FSB) head Alexander Bortnikov reported to then-President Dmitry Medvedev that a major terrorist attack had been averted in the Moscow Region and four suspects had been detained. He said an explosive device, arms, and a map had been seized.

It later became known that they had planned to blow up the Sapsan train.