MOSCOW, November 29 (RAPSI) – Six defendants have been convicted in Dagestan of plotting a terrorist attack in Red Square, the regional prosecutor’s office reported Friday.

According to the case files, these persons were members of a criminal group involved in assaulting law enforcement officers and plotting terrorist attacks on the North Caucasus Railway and in Red Square in Moscow.

The latter attack was planned for New Year’s Eve. Earlier verdicts in the same case were announced for Ilyas Saidov, Timur Akubekov and Zeinap Suyunova.
Ilyas Saidov, a member of the Islamist organization named Gubden Jamaat, was convicted of planning an explosion on Moscow's Red Square and sentenced to 15 years in a maximum security prison.

Zeinap Suyunova was sentenced to 10 years in a low security correctional facility. Timur Akubekov will be serving 10 years in a maximum security prison.

The terrorist attack was planned for New Year's Eve 2010.

Investigators said Suyunova traveled to Moscow with Zavzhat Daudova, also a would-be suicide bomber, and checked into a hotel on December 28, 2010. One bomb was accidentally detonated in the hotel, killing one terrorist. Suyunova quickly left Moscow, but was later detained.

“The court sentenced Islam Babayev to 17 years in a maximum security prison, Nazir Magomedov to 16 years, Artur Magomedov to 15.5 years, Khairullu Magomedov to 13 years, and Shamil Baimambetov and Ravil Nasyrov to 15 years each,” the statement reads.