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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, January 12 (Xinhua) — A terrorist attack by Ukrainian security services on a railway bridge in the Perm region has been thwarted, the Russian Federal Security Service's Public Relations Center (PSC) reported.
"The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, with the forceful support of the Russian National Guard, prevented a terrorist attack planned by Ukrainian intelligence services on the Chusovsky railway bridge of the Sverdlovsk railway," the statement reads.
A Russian citizen born in 1972 was detained in the city of Chusovoy in the Perm Krai. According to reports, the man fell victim to phone scammers on the messaging app Telegram and transferred 350,000 rubles to so-called "safe accounts." "Then, on instructions from the perpetrators, posing as law enforcement and special services officers, under the pretext of assisting in the return of the funds, he manufactured a homemade explosive device with the intent of committing a terrorist attack as part of an ongoing inspection of the anti-terrorism security of transport infrastructure facilities in the Perm Krai," the FSB Public Relations Center reported.
Ten kilograms of explosives, components for making explosive devices, and a webcam intended for monitoring a railway bridge were seized at the citizen's residence.
The Investigative Department of the Federal Security Service (FSB) for the Perm Territory has opened a criminal case against the detainee under articles relating to terrorism and the illegal manufacture of explosive substances or devices. "For the combined crimes committed, he faces a sentence of up to life imprisonment," the Public Relations Center stated.
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