Moscow - The case files of Ilya Pyanzin, who stands accused of plotting an attempt on President Vladimir Putin's life, have been referred to the Moscow City Court.
“The case files have arrived. The date of the hearing will be set later,” the court’s press service told Interfax on Friday.
Pyanzin joined a gang, organized by the Imarat Kavkaz criminal leader Doku Umarov, in December 2011 at Adam Osmayev and Ruslan Madayev’s insistence, according to investigators. The gang was tasked with the assassination of Vladimir Putin, the then presidential candidate, in order to cut his government and political activities short and to retaliate against Putin’s fight against criminal armed groups active in the North Caucasus and his efforts to restore constitutional order in Chechnya, the Prosecutor General’s Office said.
Pyanzin’s responsibility was to plant a car bomb on the route used by the presidential motorcade, it said.
The Prosecutor General’s Office told Interfax earlier that, “Pyanzin and his accomplices made at least two bombs designed to destroy armored vehicles and tested them outside Odesa in preparation for the assassination in December 2011.
“A fire broke out when one of the explosive devices was being made on January 4, 2012. Madayev was killed, while Pyanzin and Osmayev were arrested by Ukrainian law enforcement services. Pyanzin was subsequently extradited at Russia’s request,” the Prosecutor General’s Office said.
