Daria Trepova’s host prosecuted for not reporting terrorist attack in wake of Tatarsky assassination

After Daria Trepova’s arrest in the wake of the explosion that killed the war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky on April 2, a St. Petersburg resident who hosted Trepova around the time of the assassination has been charged with not reporting his knowledge of a terrorist attack.

The law enforcement detained Dmitry Kasintsev on April 3, alongside Trepova herself. Trepova has since been charged with terrorism and illicit trade of explosives, and is now in jail. Kasintsev now faces related charges; the court has ordered that he remain under house arrest until June 10. The hearing was closed to the public and the media.

When questioned earlier, Kasintsev insisted that he had no part in the assassination of the self-styled “war correspondent” and didn’t know anything about Trepova’s plans, reports the Telegram channel Shot.

The Russian authorities claim that Tatarsky’s assassination had been planned by the Ukrainian secret services with the aid of Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation. ACF denies having any connection to the killing.

The investigators propose that Trepova had received the statuette filled with explosives from the Ukrainian national Yury Denisov (born in 1987), who is now abroad.

Russia’s underground National Republican Army has taken credit for the Tatarsky assassination.