Arseniy Lesnoy
Arseniy Lesnoy, born 1993, Sakhalin Oblast. Charges: Article 205.1 part 4, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of terrorist activities or its financing); 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); “Case of Alexander Kozin and Arseniy Lesnoy”. Sentence (June 9, 2022): 18 years' imprisonment in a strict regime colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since May 15, 2023.
In brief
Sakhalin Oblast · Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk · Terrorism cases
Sentence
18 years
imprisonment in a strict regime colony
Upheld April 9, 2024
Charges
- Article 205.1 part 4, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of terrorist activities or its financing
- 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
- Article 223.1 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code — Attempt to illegal manufacturing of explosives
Full wording of the charges
Accused of participation 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
· Imprisonment begins
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 18 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
- Alexander Kozin — Imprisoned, 19 years
Thematic group: The case of a terrorist community in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
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Full summary
He lived on Sakhalin and was a member of a strikeball club. In April 2020, he was detained and taken into custody on charges of participation in a terrorist community and possession of weapons and explosives. Lesnoy claimed that during the search he was planted with a tube with wires. The same tube was found during the search of another person prosecuted in the case, Alexander Kozin, and the law enforcers handled it carelessly during the search, while the explosion technician said that it was a safe device. Those close to Kozin speculate that the reason for the case was his nationalist public. On 8 June 2022, Lesny was sentenced to 18 years in a strict regime colony.
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