Podkamennyy Ilya Vyacheslavovich

On November 15, 2022, Ilya Podkameny was detained in Irkutsk. He was an 18-year-old employee of the Subway fast food chain. According to law enforcement, he planned to disrupt train traffic. For this, he wrapped the rails with copper wire, which allegedly should have caused a false signal of the traffic light. Along the way, he left behind a notebook with "extremist content": "Death to the katsaps!", Instead of leaves, Putinists will be hanging", Freedom to Siberia!", The young man was accused of "public calls for extremist activity" and placed under house arrest. In mid-December, Podkamen was ordered to undergo inpatient psychiatric examination because he attempted suicide. He was taken to the hospital, and the next day the investigator sent a motion to the court to transfer the young man to a pre-trial detention center. At the same time, two new criminal cases were opened against Podkamennogo - for undergoing training for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities and preparing for a terrorist act. The investigation considered that he underwent training to carry out terrorist activities by downloading the book "Russian Cuisine" from the Internet. The "ABC of Domestic Terrorism. In addition, Podkamen was charged with the article on organizing the financing of terrorism. According to the FSB, he collected money in the Telegram channel 'Siberian Liberation Movement - Federal States of Siberia' for the preparation of an explosion at a local military enlistment office. On October 19, 2023, a panel of three judges headed by Judge Viktor Biryukov of the 1st Eastern Military District Court found Ilya Podkamennyy guilty of preparing a terrorist attack, training for the purpose of committing a terrorist attack, and organizing the financing of such activities, and sentenced him to 12 years in a strict regime colony. The first three years Podkamen will serve his sentence in prison. On March 4, 2024, the Appellate Military Court, slightly changing the wording, left the verdict in force.