MOSCOW, November 22 - RAPSI. Ilyas Saidov, one of the individuals accused of plotting a terrorist attack on Red Square, has been charged with committing 18 offences, a state prosecutor told the Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI/rapsinews.com) at the trial which has begun at the Moscow City Court.

He has been charged under five different articles of the Criminal Code - banditry, terrorism, murder, attempted murder of law enforcement officers and the illegal sale of weapons.

Saidov entered into a pre-trial agreement with investigators and disclosed valuable information, giving a full description of the members of the terrorist group, naming the main figures, and telling investigators of a previously unknown terrorist, Ibrahimkhalil Daudov, who was subsequently killed during a counter-terrorist raid in Dagestan.

He also informed investigators of previously undisclosed terrorist attacks and the places where weapons were stored, and testified on the circumstances of the murders of Dagestani high-ranking officials.

Saidov's case will be heard in a special procedure.

The case deals with a terrorist attack which was planned to take place on December 31, 2010.

Investigators maintain that Zeinap Suyunova, a member of an armed group from Dagestan, travelled to Moscow with Zavzhat Daudova, another would-be suicide bomber, and checked into a hotel on December 28, 2010. However, one of the bombs went off in the hotel, killing one of the suspected terrorists. Suyunova quickly left Moscow, but was later detained by law enforcement authorities.

Investigators have said that Saidov's role was to monitor the transportation of the explosive devices. However, he did not actually touch the explosives when they were loaded in Dagestan or when they were unloaded in Moscow.