Employees have been detained for preparing a daring terrorist attack on the railway in the Orenburg region.
Members of the banned organization "Artpodgotovka" (recognized as extremist and terrorist and banned in Russia) planned to drop a homemade explosive device from a bridge in the Orenburg region onto a train carrying products of the military-industrial complex. This was reported by TASS, citing case materials.
Earlier, the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation informed TASS that the investigation into the criminal case against Sergey Yakovlev, Alexey Shchepkin, Vladimir Drof, Igor Sharnev, Svetlana Malakhova, Anna Radionova, as well as employees of JSC "Russian Railways" Yuri Martyanov and Alexey Demchenko, has been completed by the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia with operational support from the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
Depending on their role, they are accused of committing crimes under part 2 of article 282.2, part 2 of article 205.4, part 1 of article 30, paragraph "a" of part 2 of article 205, part 4 of article 222, part 3 of article 223.1, part 4 of article 222.1, part 3 of article 226.1, part 3 of article 30, part 4 of article 222.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in the activities of an extremist organization and terrorist community; preparation for a terrorist act; illegal trafficking and smuggling of weapons and explosives).
The most radical members of the extremist organization, accused under the leadership of the head of the banned organization "Artpodgotovka," Vyacheslav Maltsev (recognized by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation as a foreign agent, included in the list of extremists and terrorists by Rosfinmonitoring, declared internationally wanted and arrested in absentia) created a terrorist group.
From April to June 2024, they conducted joint preparations for committing a terrorist act in the Orenburg region—specifically, the explosion of a train carrying products of the military-industrial complex.
Martyanov and Demchenko provided official information about places of unobstructed access to vulnerable objects of railway infrastructure.
Other accomplices manufactured an improvised explosive device and delivered it to the Orenburg region. They also stored explosives, explosive devices, and firearms, and assisted the executor of the terrorist act, Yakovlev, in the territories of Voronezh, Pskov, Saratov, and Orenburg regions.
The terrorist act was prevented thanks to the detention of those involved in the crime by the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The criminal case with an approved indictment has been sent to the Second Western District Military Court (Moscow) for consideration on the merits.
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Employees have been detained for preparing a daring terrorist attack on the railway in the Orenburg region.
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