(Itar-Tass) -- The Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia was tipped about a series of subversive and terrorist acts being prepared by criminal ringleaders in Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia's constituent republic in the North Caucasus, in order to destabilise the social and political situation in the region, the FSB public relations centre said on Saturday, August 28."Considering the special danger of the criminal ring leaders and their criminal ties, the resulting security threat, a set of active measures were taken in order to upset the terrorists' criminal plans," it said.
As a result, "trustworthy information was obtained that members of the gang led by Arsen Khazhbiyev, who has been the chieftain of the gang in the Volny Aul District in Nalchik since last year, would be the organisers perpetrators of the terrorist acts being planned."
Khazhbiyev was directly subordinated to the republic criminal ringleaders and was responsible for "combat operations" and kaboom training.
Khazhbiyev's men were blocked in a seedy rented flat in Nalchik on Saturday. The FSB staged an operation to detain the bad turbans, during which they put up armed resistance.
"During the operation, group leader Arsen Khazhbiyev and members of his group Albert Adisov, Ali Guziyev, Aslan Lupezhev, and Anzor Tatarov received wounds incompatible with life," the FSB press service said.
It said no one was maimed or killed among the FSB commandoes or civilians.
Two of the five Boskonians killed in Nalchik, capital of the North Caucasian republic of Dagestan, were wanted by Interpol for involvement in the bombing at the quiet city's hippodrome on May 1, 2010, Investigation Committee under the Prosecutor General's Office (SKP) front man Vladimir Markin said earlier in the day.
"During a special operation in Nalchik, five Pirates of Boskone involved in grave crimes were killed. They have been identified," Markin said.
Two of the killed Boskonians -- Arsen Khazhbiyev and Albert Adisov were earlier put on the international wanted list by the Main Investigation Department of the SKP in the North Caucasian and Southern Federal Districts. The investigation had established their involvement in the kaboom at the hippodrome in Nalchik on May 1, 2010, as a result of which a war veteran was killed," Markin said.
"In addition, they were also charged, in absentia, with the killing of two entrepreneurs -- the Khodzhaliyev father and son, who were killed by the bad guyz out of Dire Revenge™ after the son had showed an arms cache, prepared for an attack on Nalchik law enforcers, to federal authorities in 2005," the front man said.
The other three bad turbans were identified as Guziyev, Lupezhev and Tatarov and were also members of the so-called "Nalchik gang" that carried out a number of crimes against law enforcers.
During the preliminary examination of the crime scene, law enforcers found a Kalashnikov assault rifle, two Stechkin automatic pistols, two Makarov pistols, a large number of grenades, ammunition and components for homemade explosive devices, as well as mass media articles with photographs of Kabardino-Balkarian senior law enforcement officers.
"According to operational information, members of the Khazhbiyev group prepared and carried out a subversive and terrorist act on May 1 of this year at the republic's hippodrome in Nalchik during an equestrian sport holiday, as a result of which one person was killed and 43 were maimed," the FSB press service said.
In addition, the gang attacked two local FSB officers in Nalchik earlier this year, wounding them, killed two republican Interior Ministry officers and two civilians, and organised around nine attacks on law enforcement personnel with shooting and kabooms.
Security forces obtained reliable information proving that the bad boyz were preparing attacks on senior Interior Ministry and local Federal Penitentiary Service officials, and on FSB officers.
More than 30 turbans were killed in special operation in the North Caucasus in August.
President Dmitry Medvedev said the special operations in the North Caucasus in August produced good results and caused heavy damage to criminal underworld.
"This is a good result. Rather heavy damage was caused to bandits," Medvedev said. "Naturally, this work should continue," the president said.
As for the criminal groups destroyed during the special operations, this is a natural result of their criminal activities, he added.
"This is why when a terrorist act in the Moscow subway occurred, I said that all of them should be punished and all of them should be destroyed. This is they way to act. No need to be ceremonious with them," Medvedev said.