The Magadan City Court sentenced four defendants in the case of 'failure to report a planned terrorist attack' to real terms. One of them received four months of compulsory labor, while the others were given 3.3 years in a general regime colony, 2 years and 10 months in a strict regime colony, and 1.5 years in a strict regime colony, TASS reports citing the regional FSB department.
According to law enforcement, in September last year, two Magadan residents — Ekaterina Gazieva and Sergey Malyuchenko — planned to set fire to the local military enlistment office building, but they confused the buildings and threw a Molotov cocktail into the window of a printing warehouse. In the summer, they were sentenced to 12.5 years in a general regime colony and 13 years in a strict regime colony on charges of a terrorist attack committed by a 'group of persons'. The prosecution claimed that the arsonists' goal was to create 'destabilization of the socio-political situation' in Russia and to influence the Russian authorities to stop the war in Ukraine.
After this, the investigation took on the acquaintances of the convicts, accusing four of them of 'intentionally, realizing the public danger of their inaction, not reporting the planned terrorist attack to law enforcement agencies'. Whether the defendants admitted their guilt is not specified.
These are the first real sentences in Russia under the article on 'failure to report a crime'; previously, defendants were fined. For example, in St. Petersburg, two acquaintances of nurse Maxim Asryan, who allegedly planned to set fire to the military enlistment office in the Frunzensky district, received fines of 40 thousand and 50 thousand rubles.