The new case was reported by Freedom Lights, a project that assists imprisoned anarchists and anti-fascists. According to The Insider, Sidiki is accused of passing information to the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine's Defense Ministry, carrying out sabotage in the interests of the GUR, and transferring funds through Binance for the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In May 2025, a court sentenced Sidiki to 29 years in prison — the first nine years in a prison and the remaining 20 in a strict-regime penal colony. He was found guilty of a terrorist act committed by a group of persons, manufacturing explosives, preparing a terrorist act, training in terrorist activity, and trafficking in explosives. On July 1, 2026, the Military Appeals Court left the sentence unchanged.
According to the investigation, in July 2023 Sidiki organized a drone attack on the Dyagilevo military airfield near Ryazan, and in November of that year blew up railway tracks in the Ryazan region — 19 cars of a freight train derailed. The court also found proven the preparation of another railway action, involvement in which Sidiki denied.
As The Insider notes, Sidiki's alleged cooperation with the GUR already figured in the 2025 verdict: the court proceeded from the premise that he carried out the attacks on the orders of Ukrainian military intelligence. Some of the circumstances that the FSB now classifies as treason were already used in handing down his 29-year sentence.
Sidiki is currently being held in SIZO-1 in Ryazan, where he was transferred in August from SIZO-2 in Ryazhsk ahead of transfer. Because of the new criminal case, his dispatch to prison is being postponed, Freedom Lights writes.
After his detention in November 2023, Sidiki said that security forces tortured him to obtain a confession. According to him, he was beaten, tortured with electric current using a field telephone and a stun gun, suspended by his hands cuffed behind his back, and threatened with sexualized violence. When he was placed in a temporary detention facility and a pre-trial detention center, numerous wounds, abrasions, hematomas and bruises were recorded on him.
The Investigative Committee several times refused to open a case into the torture; those decisions were subsequently overturned by the prosecutor's office and the leadership of the regional Investigative Committee. In April 2026, an additional check continued into Sidiki's statements. His lawyer, Igor Popovsky, sought investigations into the torture. In May 2026, Popovsky was detained in a criminal case on fraud on an especially large scale.
Sidiki holds Russian and Italian citizenship. As a child he lived in Europe with his mother and stepfather, then moved to Ryazan, where he worked as an electrician. Franco Fausto Salamena, an assistant to the Italian consul, was present in court during the closing arguments and the pronouncement of the verdict. Sidiki admitted the attack on the airfield and the railway bombing, but disputed their classification as terrorist acts, asserting that the targets were military aircraft and railway infrastructure, not the intimidation of the population.