convicted engineer of the Military Bureau — EADaily, September 10, 2024 — Politics, Russia

The chief engineer of the Raduga design bureau (part of the State Corporation for Tactical Missile Armament) in Dubna, Sergei K., was sentenced to three years in prison for anti-war inscriptions on his keychains, the Telegram channel Baza reported.

“According to the study, at the end of January 2024 Sergei K. inscribed the key chains for the memory cells of mobile phones at the enterprise. When the inscriptions were discovered, the head of security at the enterprise blocked the doors and ordered the plant’s employees to be completely evacuated. As a result, the design bureau stopped work for 50 minutes, which resulted in damage of 237,000 rubles. Later, Sergei was discovered. A criminal case was initiated against him for “actions aimed at discrediting the army, hindering the operation of the plant,” the TC said.

The engineer pleaded guilty and compensated for the damage. On September 9, the court decided to send the man to the colony for three years.

As previously reported, according to the “Database”, at the end of January the inscriptions on the key chains appeared in the “Rainbow” machine-building design bureau. After some time, the identity of the “saboteur” was established, it turned out that it was the 47-year-old chief engineer of the design bureau, Sergei K. According to investigators, at the end of January the engineer painted several labels from the keys that lock the compartments for storing phones. Sergei left there inscriptions discrediting the actions of the Russian army in the DPR and LPR.

According to the “Basis”, this was already a repeat of such an offense for Sergei. On May 13, a criminal case was initiated against the man for discrediting the Russian armed forces.