CASE OF
LEADER OF
RUSSIAN CELL OF AUM SHINRIKYO SENT TO PROSECUTOR
Interfax-Religiia,
26
March 2020
The
investigator has
completed the investigation and has sent to the prosecutor's
office the case
against the head of the Russian cell of the terrorist
association Aum Shinrikyo
(which is forbidden in the RF), Mikhail Ustiantsev, an official
representative
of the S.K.R. [Investigative Committee of Russia], Svetlana
Petrenko, reported.
"According
to
information of the investigation, from 2010 until April 2018,
Ustiantsev directed
the Russian structural subdivision of the terrorist association
Aum Shinrikyo,
whose activity was prohibited by a decision of the Russian
Supreme Court,"
Petrenko told Interfax on Thursday.
The
S.K.R.
established that Ustiantsev organized the dissemination of
religious doctrine
among residents of Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Volgograd, "which
prompted
ordinary converts to provide him financial resources, which he
transferred to
Japanese leaders of the terrorist association Aum Shinrikyo, by
which terrorism
was financed."
"In
cooperation
with agencies of the Russian F.S.B., the illegal activity of
Ustiantsev was
halted on 1 May 2018, by which he arranged regular meetings of
devotees of Aum
Shinrikyo. On the basis of the recommendation of the
investigation, the court selected
a measure of restriction for Ustiantsev in the form of detention
in
custody," Petrenko said.
She said
the
investigation collected a sufficient evidentiary base by which a
criminal case
was sent to the prosecutor for resolving the issue of confirming
an indictment.
Ustiantsev
is charged
with creating a terrorist association, arranging the activity of
a terrorist
organization, creating a religious or public association whose
activity
involves violence against citizens or other harm to their
health, and also
leading such an association (part 1 of article 205.4, part 1 of
article 205.5,
and part 1 of article 239 of the Criminal Code of the RF).
Ustiantsev's
associates
have been placed on the wanted list. (tr. by PDS, posted 26
March
2020)
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