The Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced a saboteur for setting fire to infrastructure facilities
23-year-old Artem Borshchev was sentenced to 12 years in prison for a series of arson attacks on behalf of an anonymous customer.
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- The Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced 23-year-old Artem Borshchev to 12 years in a maximum security colony for a series of sabotage acts.
- The convict set fire to a communications tower in Adygea, a transformer substation and a railway post in Krasnodar on instructions from an anonymous curator.
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The convict set fire to critical infrastructure on instructions from an anonymous customer from the Internet.
The Krasnodar Regional Court identified the culprit of three acts of sabotage - he turned out to be 23-year-old local resident Artem Borshchev, who was looking for part-time work. Lenta.ru was informed about this by the joint press service of the regional courts.
The defendant was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony, of which he will spend the first three years in prison.
Borshchev had been looking for part-time work since the beginning of 2025, so he agreed to the offer of an anonymous customer from the Internet. For money, he was assigned to set fire to critical infrastructure.
In January 2025, in the village of Kozet in the Republic of Adygea, a young man climbed over the fence, doused a cell phone tower with gasoline and set it on fire. As a result, the operation of the base station was disrupted, and the damage amounted to 278 thousand rubles. Borshchev “earned” 30 thousand rubles.
In Krasnodar, he set fire to a transformer substation, which left adjacent businesses without electricity for a day. The saboteur received 19 thousand rubles. Then, at the Vitaminnaya station, he destroyed a post that ensured the operation of the contact network of railway transport, for which he was promised 150 thousand rubles. However, he was detained by FSB officers.
Open Questions
- Who is the customer of sabotage?
