St. Petersburg, July 14. The Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent Vasily Ivanov and Sergey Saratovets to pre-trial detention, accused of setting fire to a relay cabinet on railway tracks, the joint press service of the St. Petersburg courts reports.
“The court granted the petition of the investigation, electing the Ivanovo guard until September 12,” the report says. The court chose the same measure of restraint for Saratovets.
The investigation found that no later than May 1, 2023, an unknown person via the Internet offered Saratov to set fire to a railway relay cabinet for a reward of 8,000 rubles. The stranger sent the young man instructions on how to make a combustible mixture and how to set fire, as well as the coordinates. He, in turn, called Ivanov, forwarding messages to him. Together, on May 4, on the stretch of the Novaya Derevnya — Lakhta railway stations, they set fire to a relay cabinet belonging to Russian Railways.
The next day, Ivanov and Saratovtsev were detained and charged under the article on «deliberate destruction of property» (Part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The press service of the courts added that when choosing a measure of restraint for the defendants, the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation was changed to «sabotage» (paragraph «a» of part 2 of article 281 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).