GTA gang GTA gang The "GTA Gang" (Russian: банда ГТА; "Banda GTA") is the nickname given to a violent gang of murderers and terrorists located near Moscow, Russia that robbed and murdered occupants of automobiles traveling on the Federal Automobile Road M-4 after stopping them using homemade caltrops. The Russian media dubbed them the "GTA gang" because of the similarity between their violent robberies and the actions of characters in the "Grand Theft Auto" video game series. Formed in March 2012 by Ibaydullo Subkhanov to train soldiers for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the gang was ultimately apprehended
GTA gang They were on a mission to hunt down "infidels" on the motor roads as a fast and efficient way of training future ISIL fighters. A few kilos of RDX (Hexogen) explosives were found in the GTA gang's hiding places which indicated that the "jaamat" was ready to commit an act of terror in the future. On 12 November the head representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia (IC or "SK" in Russian) Vladimir Markin said that news reports that the gang members acted like the heroes of the computer game "GTA" were unfounded, maintaining the gang's motivation was robbery. He