The Chelyabinsk Regional Court sentenced 20-year-old native of the city of Kasli, Evgeny Vladytsky* to 12 years in prison for the case of arson of a cellular communication station, the court's press service reported. He was found guilty of sabotage, the first three years of the sentence the young man will spend in prison, and the rest of the term in a high-security colony.
According to the investigation, Vladytsky set fire to a base communication station in the Kurchatovsky district of Chelyabinsk on the night of May 25, 2024. The damage was estimated at 252 thousand rubles, which the convict has already compensated.
However, the case found a "Ukrainian trace", calling the young man a "supporter of pro-Ukrainian ideology", who acted on the instructions of a "foreign curator", in exchange for money. For the arson, he received more than 20 thousand rubles in cryptocurrency, transferred them to his bank account. The investigation confiscated these funds from him, writes 74.ru.
The publication also reported that the convict studied at the Chelyabinsk Law College. He was detained and sent to a pre-trial detention center on May 26, 2024. He carried out the arson together with an accomplice, a 53-year-old man named Gazirov, who died during the investigation due to a chronic illness, but managed to testify. The customer of the sabotage, to whom Vladytsky sent a video report, has not been identified.
The young man was included in the list of "extremists and terrorists" of Rosfinmonitoring in August last year.
* Included in the list of "extremists and terrorists".
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