MOSCOW, May 5 (RAPSI) – The Moscow Preobrazhensky Court has approved the detention of a person arrested for the preparation of a terrorist attack to be carried out in the Moscow region during May holidays, the Court’s press-service told RAPSI on Thursday.

“The Court has detained Aibek Saidov till July 3,” – the Court’s spokesperson stated.

Saidov is charged with illegal trafficking in firearms and attempting on life of a law enforcement officer under respective articles of the Russia’s Criminal Code.

Earlier, the Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has reported that a group of citizens of Central Asian countries planning to carry out a series of terrorist attacks in the Moscow region in the period of May holidays and acting on the instructions issued by leaders of international terrorist organizations active in Syria and Turkey had been detained.

It has been stressed that large quantities of firearms, explosives, and other tools of terrorist activities were seized.