Chestnykh Aleksandr Leonidovich

On August 29, 2023, at eleven o'clock in the morning, employees of the station in the Moscow region saw melted wiring in the distribution cabinet of the complex-transformer substation near the fence of the Reutov railway station." The coating on the cabinet door was also melted, and there was soot inside. The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Ryazan placed Chernichkin in custody. Then they stuffed a rag soaked in an unidentified liquid into a small crack and set it on fire. Another arson of a relay cabinet occurred on September 6. On September 9, 2023, in Balashikha, a 60-year-old local resident Alexander Chestnykh was detained on charges of arson." A criminal case was opened against him for disabling vehicles or means of communication, but the charge was later reclassified as a terrorist attack committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy. According to the investigation, Chesnykh acted with the aim of 'intimidating the population and creating a danger of death, to destabilize the activities of government bodies'." "After the search, the man was taken to the investigative department of the line department (SO LU) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia at Moscow-Kurskaya station." "It is claimed that during interrogation, the detainee reported that he acted on the instructions of an anonymous person from whom he received the necessary instructions through a Telegram channel. For each arson, he allegedly received a reward of $300 in cryptocurrency. September 11, 2023, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow granted the prosecution's motion to detain Chestnykh in custody. On October 21, 2024, the Moscow Regional Court ruled to apply compulsory medical measures against Alexander Chestnykh. On February 10, 2025, the First Appellate Court of General Jurisdiction left the court's decision unchanged.