The Central District Military Court sentenced Vasily Gavrilishen, a resident of Nizhnevartovsk, to 13 years in prison in the case of setting fire to a military registration and enlistment office. TASS writes about this with reference to a correspondent in the courtroom.
Gavrilishen will spend the first five years of punishment in prison, the rest of the term in a strict regime colony. He was found guilty of a terrorist act committed by a group of persons by prior agreement (point «a» of part 2 of article 205 of the Criminal Code). In addition, the man was also sentenced to a year and a half of restriction of freedom after his release.
The reason for the criminal case was the arson of the military enlistment office in Nizhnevartovsk on the night of May 3-4, 2022. According to investigators, Gavrilishen, together with another person involved in the case, Vladislav Borisenko, set fire to the military registration and enlistment office at the direction of a certain Rostislav Mukhin, who was associated with the Ukrainian special services, and planned to receive from one to three million rubles for this.
Initially, both men were arrested under articles on deliberate arson and hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 167, Article 213 of the Criminal Code). In December, it became known that the charge had been reclassified as an article about a terrorist act, after which the defendants admitted to the charges brought against them. Gavrilishen switched to a special procedure for considering the case.
At the end of January, Borisenko was sentenced to 12 years in a strict regime colony and a fine of six thousand rubles. After that, Gavrilishen retracted his confession in the case of the terrorist attack, saying that he signed the testimony «without looking.» He admitted guilt in the case, but did not agree with the qualification of his actions. In this regard, the special procedure for considering the case was canceled.
The military registration and enlistment office in Nizhnevartovsk caught fire on the night of May 3-4, 2022. Surveillance cameras recorded two men at the entrance to the building: one of them threw eight Molotov cocktails towards the door, after which both ran away. The area of the fire was one square meter, no one was injured as a result of the fire.