MOSCOW. May 24 (Interfax) - The Moscow City Court has upheld the arrest warrant for Denis Kapustin, founder of the Russian Volunteer Corps, who is charged in Russia with organizing an attack on a village in the Bryansk region in March 2023 and attempted killing of businessman Konstantin Malofeyev, the court told Interfax.
"The decision made by Moscow's Basmanny District Court on March 30, 2023 on restrictions on Kapustin is upheld, the appeal against this decision is declined," the court's press service told Interfax on Wednesday.
Thus, Kapustin is to be taken into custody for two months from the moment of his extradition to Russia or from the moment of his detention in Russia.
Kapustin is charged in absentia in Russia with committing a terrorist attack, illegal weapons turnover and illegal turnover of explosive substances.
He is on the international wanted list.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on March 2, 2023 that measures were being taken in the Bryansk region close to the border to eliminate armed Ukrainian radicals. Bryansk region governor Alexander Bogomaz said the Ukrainian saboteurs had opened fire at a car in the Klimovsky district.
The FSB said on March 6 it had prevented an attempt to kill Konstantin Malofeyev, board chairman of Tsargrad Group, whose car was going to be blown up using a homemade explosive device.
According to the FSB, the organizer of both crimes was "Denis Kapustin, born in 1984, a citizen of Russia, founder and leader of the so-called Russian Volunteer Corps, who fought against the Russian troops on the Ukrainian side, who lived on the territory of Ukraine and acted under the control of the Security Service of Ukraine."
The FSB also called Kapustin an organizer of the act of sabotage and terrorism "using a homemade explosive device at an oil and gas facility on the territory of the Volgograd region," which defense and security agencies averted in August 2022.
The Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) put Kapustin on the list of persons and organizations on which there is information on their involvement in extremist activities or terrorism.
Arrest warrants have also been issued for some of Kapustin's presumed accomplices in Russia.