SEVASTOPOL. Nov 12 (Interfax) - The Leninsky District Court of Sevastopol has ordered that a local resident suspected of plotting to commit a terrorist act on rail tracks near the Balaklava Thermal Power Plant be taken into custody, the press center of the Russian Federal Security Service's (FSB) branch for Crimea and Sevastopol told Interfax on Tuesday.
"The Leninsky District Court of the city of Sevastopol imposed a restraining measure such as a custody term," it said.
Earlier on Tuesday, the FSB press center said it had detained a 29-year-old resident of Sevastopol who contacted the Security Service of Ukraine in order to engage in secret collaboration, received money from his supervisor and bought flammable liquid to set on fire a transport infrastructure facility along a railroad near the Balaklava Thermal Power Plant. The suspect did not carry out his plot as he was detained at the crime scene.
Criminal cases have been opened against the man on counts of collaboration with a foreign state on a confidential basis and an attempt to perpetrate a terrorist act, the statement said.