Alexander Kozin
Alexander Kozin, born 1981, Sakhalin Oblast. Charges: Article 205.3, Russian Criminal Code (Receiving training for the commission of terrorist crimes); Article 205.4 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Creation of a terrorist community); Article 222 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Illicit trafficking in firearms or ammunition); “Case of Alexander Kozin and Arseniy Lesnoy”. Sentence (June 9, 2022): 19 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since May 15, 2023; place of detention: Prison No. 2, Krasnoyarsk Krai.
In brief
Sakhalin Oblast · Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk · Office workers · Terrorism cases
Sentence
19 years
of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony
Upheld April 9, 2024
Charges
- Article 205.3, Russian Criminal Code — Receiving training for the commission of terrorist crimes
- Article 205.4 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Creation of a terrorist community
- Article 222 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Illicit trafficking in firearms or ammunition
- Article 222.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Illegal acquisition, transfer, storage, transportation, shipment or bearing of explosive substances or explosive devices
- Article 222.1 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
- Article 223.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Illegal manufacture of explosives
Full wording of the charges
Accused of participating in a terrorist community called S.T.C.N. ("Sakhalin Tactical Club of Nationalists")
Latest event
April 9, 2024 — cassation
The court upheld the verdict.
Timeline
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 19 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
Case of Alexander Kozin and Arseniy Lesnoy
Criminal case
Case of Alexander Kozin and Arseniy Lesnoy
Other defendants in the case
- Arseniy Lesnoy — Imprisoned, 18 years
Thematic group: The case of a terrorist community in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Write a letter
Facility: Prison No. 2, Krasnoyarsk Krai
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
663180, ул. Декабристов д. 11, Красноярский край, г. Енисейск, ФКУ «Т № 2 ГУФСИН России по Красноярскому краю», Козин Александр Николаевич, 1981 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
Kozin was involved in airsoft, organised a search-and-rescue team in Sakhalin, and ran a popular VKontakte (Russian social media) public page "Emergency Sakhalin Russian Media". The team named "Regional Public Organisation "Search and Rescue Team "Emergency Sakhalin"" was engaged in finding missing persons, conducted paintball games and trainings, and cooperated with the All-Russian People's Front. In April 2020, Kozin was detained and taken into custody on charges of organising the activities of a terrorist community and possession of weapons and explosives. Kozin claimed that during the search law enforcers planted a tube with wires on him, handling it carelessly, while an explosives expert saying it was safe. Kozin's relatives do not believe that he could have created a terrorist community, and suggest that the reason for the persecution was his 'nationalist' public page. On June 8, 2022, Kozin was sentenced to 19 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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