Russian police have raided the Jehovah’s Witnesses nationwide and made arrests in a new criminal case against the banned Christian-based group.

The Investigative Committee (SK) posted a video on YouTube showing SK men in balaclavas breaking into a flat and seizing piles of foreign currency.

The SK – which operates like the FBI – said “conspiratorial meetings” had been held at a Moscow flat since June 2019.

In 2017 Russia’s Supreme Court banned the Jehovah’s Witnesses as “extremist”.