The Reutov City Court detained 37-year-old musician Vladimir Bolobolov, who is accused of possessing explosives, reported a correspondent from the courtroom.
According to the investigation, which petitioned for the arrest, no later than February 2023, Bolobolov established contact with an unknown person who gave him the coordinates of a cache with explosives. Later, the musician took it and stored it at home. On August 28, 2025, this improvised explosive device, made in the form of a charger, was seized during a search. Bolobolov did not plead guilty.
Lawyer Oskar Cherdzhiev is confident that the investigation materials are falsified. "It's complete nonsense that he allegedly stored some explosive in an open drawer of a dresser. I firmly state that this item was planted," he said. He also reported that on August 27, several men attacked Bolobolov on the street, shoved him into a car, put a bag over his head, shocked him with electricity, and strangled him, demanding he tell "what they already know." The man spent three days handcuffed to a radiator with a bag over his head.
Doctors who conducted the medical examination found traces of electric torture on Bolobolov's collarbone. "This was done by so-called FSB officers. More precisely, I cannot assert that they were FSB officers, they were masked," noted Cherdzhiev.
According to the lawyer, some device was shoved into Bolobolov's hands—probably the very thing that the authorities later declared as explosives found in his apartment.
The judge agreed with the investigation's arguments that Bolobolov could commit other crimes or flee while free. The investigation will also check his involvement in other crimes.
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