A military court in Russia's Far East has set a date for the trial of a former police officer and solider accused of involvement in a radical Islamic gang, a court spokesperson told RIA Novosti on Friday.
The gang is suspected of a series of murders and armed attacks.
"The first hearing will take place on March 25," the spokesperson for the Pacific fleet court said, adding that the proceedings would be open to the media and the public.
The two suspects were detained after a security services operation in Vladivostok in March 2009 connected to attacks on Chinese businessmen. Three suspects were killed when police opened fire at the apartment the gang was holed up in after they began launching grenades at a neighboring residential building.
Ex-officer Eduard Zasseta and former serviceman Dzhavatkhan Salimanov were detained.
An investigator said weapons, ammunition and explosives, along with radical Islamic literature, was found in the apartment after the raid.
A number of gang members of are still at large, police say.
VLADIVOSTOK, March 12 (RIA Novosti)
