A recruiter for the Hizb ut-Tahrir terrorist network has been arrested by authorities in the Russian capital, Sputnik reported on Tuesday.

The suspect was apprehended while scouting for prospective recruits for the Islamist groups engaged in bloody conflicts in Iraq and Syria.

"Agents of the Russian Ministry of Interior’s Anti-Extremism Department working together with FSB have arrested a resident of Tatarstan in the northwestern administrative district of Moscow, who was attempting to recruit Russian citizens for illegal militant groups in Syria and Iraq," the ministry’s spokeswoman Irina Volk told the media.

The suspect was apparently already on police’s wanted list for being a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir.

Source ; MENA