The Samara District Court extended the detention of Ukrainian Sergei Okrushko, accused of an explosion at the Kuibyshev oil refinery, for two months. about this with reference to his wife . writes The Solidarity Zone
The man is accused of sabotage (Article 281 of the Criminal Code ) due to the explosion that occurred at the Kuibyshev oil refinery on July 28. The bomb exploded in an old building that had been decommissioned; no one was injured in the explosion. At the same time, according to the investigation, the material damage amounted to more than 30 million rubles.
As Okrushko’s appointed lawyer Vyacheslav Pavelkin said, after the first explosion his client defused two other explosive devices. “He did not have a goal to harm people,” the defender emphasized. He also said that by his actions Okrushko wanted to protest against the war in Ukraine, and had previously participated in anti-war rallies.
The man was detained the day after the explosion while trying to leave the Orenburg region for Kazakhstan. According to Pavelkin, his client admitted guilt and repented.
In August, Okrushko refused the services of lawyer Zakhar Lebedev, who collaborates with the Solidarity Zone. When the person involved in the case wrote a written refusal, Lebedev noticed an extensive hematoma on his hand.
“We are sure that between August 1 and today Sergei Okrushko was tortured in a pre-trial detention center or another place in order to induce him to refuse an independent lawyer. Alas, at this stage the criminals in uniform have achieved their goal. But we will make efforts to provide Okrushko with full protection and assistance,” emphasized the participants of the Solidarity Zone.
On November 20, the Samara District Court extended the detention of Sergei Okrushko until January 28, 2024. This was reported by the Solidarity Zone.
You can support Sergei Okrushko by writing him a letter through the Zonatelecom service :
443 022, Samara, Sadovy proezd, 22, pre-trial detention center-1,
Okrushko Sergey Alexandrovich born 03/01/1981
On January 24, the Samara District Court extended Sergei Okrushko’s stay in the pre-trial detention center for another two months, until March 28, 2024. This was reported by the Solidarity Zone.
- Before the start of a full-scale war with Ukraine, people in Russia were rarely tried under the article on sabotage (Article 281 of the Criminal Code) - over the past ten years, courts have handed down several sentences a year, found out Mediazona . Since the fall of 2022, security forces began to regularly initiate criminal cases under this article: the publication’s journalists studied known materials and found that almost three-quarters of them refer to damage to relay cabinets on railways. In addition, at the end of 2022, the punishment for sabotage was tightened: related articles were introduced three new into the Criminal Code , one of which carries life imprisonment.