The Armavir City Court arrested Yegor Semenov for 15 days under a protocol of petty hooliganism, Kommersant reports. At the same time, the man is being investigated in connection with an attempt to poison graduates of a local flight school, law enforcement sources told the publication.
The court sent Semenov under arrest due to the fact that “while on the street, he used obscene language, waved his arms, and did not respond to comments” (Part 2 of Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code). According to Kommersant’s interlocutors, after serving his sentence, Semenov may be arrested in the case of attempted terrorist attack (Part 3 of Article 30 of the Criminal Code, Article 205 of the Criminal Code).
As the publication's sources explained, on October 21, former students of the Armavir Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots (AVVAUL) celebrated the 20th anniversary of graduation in one of the city's restaurants. 77 people attended the meeting.
During the banquet, a courier entered the hall and brought a 20-kilogram cake with the emblem of the school and whiskey. He said that he had delivered gifts from one of the graduates who could not attend the meeting, but did not specify his name — this seemed “suspicious” to the pilots. They did not eat the cake, although they managed to cut it, and then reported the delivery to the FSB, writes Kommersant.
Special service officers came to the conclusion that the cake and whiskey were poisoned, and the attempt on the pilots was “organized by SBU officers.” The courier, according to the FSB, was Semenov, a native of Melitopol, who recently lived in the Moscow region. The department did not officially announce the initiation of a case against him.
According to the Baza telegram channel, after delivering the cake, 32-year-old Semenov tried to fly from Stavropol airport to Moscow. He was detained by security forces at the airport.