Explosives in house of Karpenko and Grishina detected as of industrial origin, witness reports

The explosives, found in an outbuilding near the house of Tatiana Karpenko and Natalia Grishina, are industrially made. This was reported by an expert from the forensic centre of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). Investigators did not explain how the explosives could appear in the young women's house, the defence reported.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that Tatiana Karpenko, a native of the town of Tsimlyansk, and Natalia Grishina, a native of Kazakhstan, are accused of plotting a terror act in a shopping centre of Rostov. On July 26, Victoria Semyonova, the third women involved in the case, was sentenced to three years of imprisonment in a common-security penal colony.

At the trial, Sergey Koptsev, the deputy chief of the department for study of narcotic substances and explosive expertise of the Russian MIA for the Rostov Region, reported that seized plastic-based explosives are used in industry.

"Meanwhile, the prosecutors failed to provide evidence of how the explosives got to the defendants, since they had no contacts with military bases, and so on," noted Ramil Sefikhanov, an advocate of Tatiana Karpenko.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.