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Boris Goncharenko

Boris Goncharenko

Krasnodar

37 yr old (born in 08.06.1988)

Address: 404621 Волгоградская область, г. Ленинск, ул. Промышленная, 12, ФКУ СИЗО-5 УФСИН России по Волгоградской области, Гончаренко Борис Андреевич, 1988 г.р.

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School teacher in Goryachy Klyuch (Krasnodar Region). Participant of "What? Where? When?" [an intellectual game show] tournaments. On October 7, 2022, he was detained on suspicion of attempted arson of a military recruitment centre. Later, the charge was reclassified to committing a terrorist act by a group of persons with significant damage. On October 24, Goncharenko was taken into custody. During one of the hearings, another defendant in the case, Bogdan Abdurakhmanov, stated that he was the initiator of the arson, but, after being detained and subjected to torture, he was coerced into claiming that he acted under Goncharenko's orders. In October 2024, during court hearings, the prosecutor reclassified Goncharenko's charge to aiding terrorist activities, thereby rejecting the investigation's earlier version in which he was the initiator. On January 12, 2025, Goncharenko was sentenced to 12 years in a maximum security colony.

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Address: 404621 Волгоградская область, г. Ленинск, ул. Промышленная, 12, ФКУ СИЗО-5 УФСИН России по Волгоградской области, Гончаренко Борис Андреевич, 1988 г.р.

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