In the murder of military correspondent Maxim Fomin (was known as Vladlen Tatarsky), committed in St. Petersburg, just a few hours later, the first suspect appeared. According to the ICR, the crime was committed by a supporter of the banned in Russia and liquidated FBK Daria Trepova, whom the investigation also linked with the Ukrainian special services. On Tuesday, she will be charged with terrorism and will choose a measure of restraint. Meanwhile, crimes similar to the bombing of Vladlen Tatarsky were committed in Russia even before the start of the SVO.
According to surveillance camera records and telephone billing, the police found Daria Trepova in an apartment located a few minutes walk from Universitetskaya embankment, where Vladlen Tatarsky, who had more than half a million subscribers on social networks, died as a result of an explosion during his creative evening the day before. The suspect, according to some reports, did not immediately get into it – at first she went to another rented accommodation, and from there she actually returned to the scene of the crime by taxi.
The TFR immediately opened a criminal case on the murder (Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) of a military commissar. But in the main investigative department of the department, where the investigation was transferred on behalf of Alexander Bastrykin, they came to the conclusion that it should be a terrorist attack (Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), since not only a military commander, but also other people could have died in the explosion (they were injured three dozen people), and the action itself was planned by the Ukrainian special services.
Daria Trepova, as stated in the case file, admitted her guilt in part, saying that at the request of another person she came to the event in a bar and handed over to the organizers a small bust for Vladlen.
The latter not only accepted him, but also invited Trepova, whom he knew as Anastasia, to sit next to him. However, Trepova preferred to stay away.
A shellless device based on plastic explosives, embedded in the bust, went off at 18:13. In action, presumably (explosive expertise has just been appointed), it was set by a signal from a mobile phone. Explosives experts say the perpetrator was most likely in the same bar watching the victim. Whether it was Daria or her unidentified accomplice has yet to be clarified by the investigation, which is studying the suspect’s phone with the help of specialists.
She herself claims that she was set up with a booby-trapped bust, but it has already been established that Trepova, as if following the future victim, several times attended meetings with readers that were held by the military commissar. To do this, she traveled to Moscow and even flew to Omsk. By the way, unlike the St. Petersburg event, these events could be reached by passing through metal detectors, which made it difficult to assassinate.
On Tuesday, Trepova should be sent to Moscow, where investigators from the Main Investigative Committee of the ICR will formally charge her with terrorism, and then they will petition the Basmanny District Court for arrest. Now she risks spending many years behind bars – under Part 3 of Art. 205 of the Criminal Code provides for punishment up to life, but the same code states that it cannot be assigned to a woman.
Meanwhile, according to the FSB, the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the SBU, even before the start of the SVO in Russia, created combat groups that were supposed to kill or kidnap the commanders of volunteer formations in the Donbass (Kommersant spoke about this in detail on March 24). Subsequently, the “liquidators”, according to the FSB, switched to journalists, prominent public figures and entrepreneurs supporting the operation. Attacks on them caused even greater public outcry.
Opponents of the authorities, as a rule, became members of such groups, including persons subjected to criminal prosecution for crimes committed on the basis of ethnic hatred. According to the ICR, such persons included, for example, a group that was preparing an assassination attempt on the well-known TV journalist Vladimir Solovyov (it was planned to blow him up along with the car, see Kommersant on February 20).
It is believed that the militants included in it were followers of the National Socialism / White Power terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation (“National Socialism / White Power, Power”), as well as other similar brigades.
The defendants in this case began with the fact that, receiving assignments from Ukraine, they carried out various actions aimed at countering the special operation. For rewards, including those received on crypto wallets, they set fire to military registration and enlistment offices, police departments and sabotage on railways. Then they had to switch to journalists and public figures, and after the attacks, using the passports of citizens of Ukraine, move abroad. However, the security forces, investigating the arson, came to the perpetrators, who were arrested on charges of terrorism (Article 205 of the Criminal Code) and a number of other crimes. Once in the pre-trial detention center, most of them admitted their guilt and confirmed the data of the FSB. Crimes, according to the investigation, were ordered by the SBU.
Another group, already acting on the instructions of the GUR, was uncovered by the FSB. Its participants, according to the intelligence service, planned to blow up the car of a well-known businessman, the head of the Tsargrad group of companies, Konstantin Malofeev, along with the car.
The perpetrators, according to investigators, were again found by the Ukrainian side among Russian nationalists.
The murder of journalist Darya Dugina, daughter of Alexander Dugin, a philosopher, political scientist and Russkiy Mir ideologist, who was blown up in her father’s SUV last year, was solved by the FSB in record time. The special service, and then the TFR, came to the conclusion that the SBU is behind the executor, a citizen of Ukraine Natalia Vovk (put on the wanted list).
At the same time, several other crimes were uncovered, which also caused a great public outcry. We are talking about arson of military facilities, as well as cars, which were committed by people who themselves suffered, as the investigation showed, from telephone scammers. After they, saving their savings, transferred them to the accounts of other people, in a number of cases, the victims received offers to return the stolen property after actions directed against the SVO. True, after the attacks on the same military registration and enlistment offices, none of them received a penny.