The Central District Court of Omsk arrested Belarusian citizen Sergei Eremeev on suspicion of blowing up two trains with oil products in the longest tunnel of the BAM< /span>. A TASS correspondent reported this from the courtroom.
The detention of the Belarusian became known on Thursday, December 7. Initially, the FSB did not disclose his name.
As TASS writes, in court Eremeev said that he wanted to interfere with the transportation of military cargo. According to investigators, the suspect brought at least seven explosive devices from Belarus, which were given to him in the fall by “members of an organized criminal group.” The man allegedly received a monetary reward for transporting explosives and blowing up two trains.
A train explosion in the Severomuysky tunnel occurred on November 29 on the stretch between the Itykit and Okushikan stations in the north of Buryatia. After this, the security forces opened a case for violation of traffic safety rules and operation of railway transport (Part 1 of Article 263 of the Criminal Code). Later, a case of a terrorist attack appeared (part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code).
The length of the Severomuisky tunnel exceeds 15 kilometers, which makes it the longest in Russia. Before the tunnel opened in 2003, trains followed a bypass line with lower capacity. Explaining the reason for choosing the tunnel for sabotage, Ukrainian media sources and CNN called this route “the only major railway connection between Russia and China.”