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NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� The leader of an eastern European neo-Nazi group has been extradited to the United States from Moldova following his arrest last summer for allegedly instructing an undercover federal agent to dress as Santa Claus and hand out poisoned candy to Jewish children and racial minorities, prosecutors said.

Michail Chkhikvishvili, a 21-year-old from the republic of Georgia, was arraigned Friday before a federal judge in Brooklyn on multiple felonies, including soliciting hate crimes and acts of mass violence.

He pleaded not guilty through an attorney, Samuel Gregory, who requested his client receive a psychiatric evaluation and be placed on suicide watch while in custody. Gregory did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

Prosecutors described Chkhikvishvili, who also goes by 鈥淐ommander Butcher,” as the leader of the Maniac Murder Cult, an international extremist group that adheres to a 鈥渘eo-Nazi accelerationist ideology and promotes violence and violent acts against racial minorities, the Jewish community and other groups it deems 鈥榰ndesirables.鈥欌��

They said the group鈥檚 violent solicitations 鈥� promoted through Telegram channels and outlined a manifesto called the 鈥淗ater鈥檚 Handbook鈥� 鈥� appear to have inspired multiple real life killings, including a school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, earlier this year that left a 16-year-old student dead.

Since 2022, Chkhikvishvili has traveled on multiple occasions to Brooklyn, where he bragged about beating up an elderly Jewish man and instructed others, primarily through text messages, to commit violent acts on behalf of the Maniac Murder Cult, according to court papers.

When he was approached by an undercover FBI agent in 2023, Chkhikvishvili recruited the official to a scheme that 鈥渋nvolved an individual dressing up as Santa Claus and handing out candy laced with poison to racial minorities and children at Jewish schools in Brooklyn,鈥� according to the Justice Department.

He later suggested narrowing the focus to 鈥渄ead Jewish kids,鈥� prosecutors said, after noting that 鈥淛ews are literally everywhere鈥� in Brooklyn.

Describing his desire to carry out a mass casualty attack, Chkhikvishvili said he saw the United States as 鈥渂ig potential because accessibility to firearms,鈥� adding that the undercover should consider targeting homeless people because the government wouldn鈥檛 care 鈥渆ven if they die,鈥� according to court papers.

He was arrested last July in Moldova, where he was held prior to this week鈥檚 extradition.

In a statement, Attorney General Pam Bondi said the case was 鈥渁 stark reminder of the kind of terrorism we face today: online networks plotting unspeakable acts of violence against children, families, and the Jewish community in pursuit of a depraved, extremist ideology.鈥�