MOSCOW, March 28. /TASS/. Member of the so-called Vagabov crime gang Magomed Nurov, charged with involvement in the 2010 Moscow subway terrorist attacks, has pleaded guilty, a TASS correspondent reported from Moscow’s Basmanny District Court.

"Nurov pleaded guilty during the arraignment hearing," an investigator said.

However, the defendant’s defense attorney expressed doubts that Nurov had actually pleaded guilty. "The case files include a confession but what does it refer to? He does not plead guilty to terrorism charges," he said.

Nurov is charged under Article 205.3 of the Russian Criminal Code. The Investigative Committee has requested the court arrest him until May 27.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said earlier that a member of the Vagabov gang, involved in the 2010 suicide blasts in the Moscow subway, had been detained in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan.

On March 29, 2010, female suicide bombers carried out two terrorist attacks at the Lubyanka and Park Kultury metro stations in Moscow, killing 39 people and injuring 128 others. A subsequent criminal investigation identified the masterminds behind the blasts and the actual foot soldiers who carried them out: Vagabov, Aliyev, Magomednabiyev, Shchashchayev, Magomedov, Rabadanov and Isagadzhiyev. All of them were killed while resisting arrest.