MOSCOW. June 1 (Interfax) - Moscow's Basmanny District Court has granted an investigator's motion to extend by three months the arrest of St. Petersburg resident Darya Trepova, earlier charged with committing a terror attack that killed reporter Maxim Fomin, aka Vladlen Tatarsky, a court representative told Interfax.
"The period of custody has been extended for Trepova until September 2, 2023," a court official told Interfax on Thursday.
Trepova is charged with an act of terror and illegal possession of explosives.
According to investigators, an explosion rocked a cafe in the center of St. Petersburg on April 2, 2023, killing Fomin (Tatarsky) and inflicting injuries of various degrees on over 50 people.
Materials in the court proceeding say that Trepova presented a bust stuffed with explosives to Tatarsky.
The National Antiterrorism Committee said the terror attack "was plotted by Ukrainian security services and involved agents from among persons cooperating with the so-called Anti-Corruption Foundation (branded as extremist and banned in Russia) of [Alexei] Navalny, whose active follower the detained Trepova is."
The Russian Federal Security Service said that Trepova got Tatarsky's bust with a bomb inside from Ukrainian citizen Yury Denisov, who was following the reporter since February 2023 and left Russia on April 3.