MOSCOW, July 28 The defense of the defendants in the case of the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge plans to finish familiarizing themselves with the materials of the criminal case in the fall, said the lawyer of one of them, Sergei Bizyukin.
«We continue to get acquainted with the case, there are more than 100 volumes, I think we will finish in a couple of months,» said the agency's interlocutor, representing the interests of Alexander Bylin.
The case is expected to be sent to the Prosecutor General's Office for approval after this. Bizyukin clarified that the last time the arrest period for the defendants in the case was extended until September.
On the Crimean Bridge, early in the morning of October 8, 2022, a truck exploded. As a result, seven fuel tanks of the train caught fire, two automobile spans of the bridge partially collapsed, and four people died. Rail traffic on the bridge was fully restored by the evening, and at the same time, reversible automobile traffic was launched for cars, first on one, and later on two lanes.
The Russian FSB stated that the organizer of the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge was the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and personally its head Kirill Budanov. The explosive device was camouflaged in rolls of construction polyethylene film on 22 pallets with a total weight of almost 22.8 tons.
In connection with the terrorist attack, Ukrainian citizens Roman Solomko and Vladimir Zloba, Russian citizens Artem and Georgy Azatyan, and Armenian citizen Artur Terchanyan were arrested in Simferopol. Aleksandr Bylin, Oleg Antipov, and Dmitry Tyazhelykh were taken into custody in Moscow.
Bylin is the CEO of Extra LLC, registered in Alupka, which is engaged in the wholesale trade of vegetables and fruits. Tyazhelykh is registered as an individual entrepreneur, and Antipov is the CEO and owner of TEK-34 LLC in Ulyanovsk. It was his company that was listed in the documents as the sender of the cargo that was inside the truck that exploded on the Crimean Bridge.
Solomko, who lived in Kherson, and Zloba, who worked in Moscow in recent years, according to investigators, were responsible for substituting documents when transporting cargo across Russia, when the customer was the TEK-34 company from Ulyanovsk, and the recipient was a non-existent company in Crimea.
Resident of the Krasnodar Territory Georgy Azatyan is a co-owner of the Agro Business company in Armavir, to whose warehouse a camouflaged bomb was brought from Georgia, allegedly at the request of his younger brother Artem Azatyan, who recently lived in Crimea. According to preliminary data, Azatyan Jr. stated during the investigative actions that the cargo belonged to his good friend. Terchanyan is a truck driver who, according to the FSB, brought the cargo to Russia.